[LISTNAME] in subject line

Marion Gunn mgunn at egt.ie
Fri Mar 2 18:16:14 CET 2007


I have configured all the lists I run so that the mail exploder will,  
at the left of the subject line, insert the name of the list in  
brackets thus: [LISTNAME] .

This is very useful on busy lists, specialist lists and lists with  
multiple threads and varying subject lines, as well as being a  
protection against the human error of answering public mail as if it  
were private, which is how IETF mail (lacking, as it does, a subject  
tag) currently surfaces in our mailers.

For example, I have just received 2 identical msgs from Debbie  
Garside, one obviously listmail (identified as such by the [LTRU]  
lead-in on its subject line) the other apparently private mail (until  
an examination of its internal routing headers revealed it to be  
listmail.

I note that LTRU's admin people already do this, and wonder if IETF's  
admin would similarly oblige?

Just asking.
mg

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