[LISTNAME] in subject line

CE Whitehead cewcathar at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 12 17:07:23 CET 2007


Sort of agree that the subject is helpful too; from that people can infer 
the list name.

But I understand Marion's point about wildly unsorted email.

(My filters have not worked properly on my mail account but that is a way to 
handle the problem.)

--C. E. Whitehead

>
>
>--On 2. mars 2007 17:16 +0000 Marion Gunn <mgunn at egt.ie> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Only if you don't pre-sort your mail using automatic filters.
>The [listname] tagging is only useful if you look at the mail from multiple 
>lists in a single folder.
>
>>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?
>
>The IETF-languages list's admin person does not agree with you.
>I prefer to preserve the 40 or so characters of the subject line my folders 
>display for the actual subject.
>
>                Harald
>
>
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