Prefixing Topics with Mailing list name

[Peter Nixon]

On Tue 26 Sep 2006 21:34, Jan Mulders wrote:
> Because most other lists (for example, Sourceforge) add [prefixes] to
> emails, that make it easier - for me at least - to filter emails by list in
> Gmail and other mail clients.

Well, I dont know about gmail, but every decent mail client that I can think 
of can rewrite headers one way or another. So can procmail.

> I'm currently subscribed to the following lists that use [prefixes]:
>
> [shorewall-users]
> [openvpn-users]
> [openvpn-devel]
> [lartc]
> [snort-users]
>
> What's more, these don't seem to be small groups either.
>
> I'd be eager to see the prefixes added, as it'd make my mail archives look
> a lot neater and easier to sort through.
>
> I agree about losing half the subject line to said headers, but to be
> honest it's not much point knowing more of the subject line if you have no
> idea what list it's from!

As I said its easy for you to add this yourself. You should also read:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/writing/tagging-harmful/



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