Quoting Tom Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Did someone HAVE a good reason for why it's not happening? I can live with a four-character longer subject line.
Yup. Atrocities like this: http://www.perlcode.org/lists/vps-mail/msg00158.html
Re: [THIS] Fwd: [THAT] Re: [SA-TALK] (original subject truncated)
Perhaps people shouldnt be forwarding from one list to another. Might as well just cross-post...
Breaks alphabetical sorting, if you like to sort alphabetically at times (which I do in the event that someone's mail client breaks a thread). And if I forward that message to you off-list, that should go into your inbox, no? Heaven help that message, nobody knows where the hell it's going.
If someone replies to a message i sent to the list, and they happen to hit
"reply-all" both the list and i will get a copy. Filtering on listid will send
1 to the list box i have set up and 1 copy to my inbox. First of all, i dont
want 2 copies (but thats another story) and second, if it has to do with
something i posted to the list, i want it in the mailbox designated for the
list, not my inbox.
Also, i dont see how it would break alphabetical sorting any more than mail clients inserting Re: before the subject.
I should observe that at least one other list I'm on (the NANOG list) DOES NOT have the prefix, and there's a lot of confusion with this list for that reason, since both of you seem to be intent on harping on "SPF IS BAD" versus "SPF IS HERE".
Why would it make any confusion at all? I honestly do not understand how they can even find their way into the same folder (it sounds like you're sorting into folders, I'm not sure though). I have half a dozen lists dealing with nothing but messaging, and none of them have it and they all sort fine. They even sorted fine with Outlook and Outlook Express!
So basically, everyone has 2 choices:
1. Set up a separate mailbox for each list you are on and filter that accordingly using listid.
2. Deal with a crapload of messages in your inbox which you have no idea what list they are from because the subject doesnt have a unique list identifier prefix. In this case, one would have to open the message and read its content to see where it belongs or view the headers and see what the listid says.
-Jim
