Administrivia: Subject line tagging

[Dan Jenkins]

Jason Stephenson wrote:

>  I have a request that I'd like to put up for discussion. I think it
>  would be very handy if subject lines of messages sent to/from the
>  gnhglug lists were prepended with the list name in brackets. This
>  would facilitate filtering of messages into appropriate mail folders
>  without having to scan all the headers looking for the right bit of
>  information. As it is now, messages to the discuss list could contain
>  disscuss at gnhlug.org or gnhlug-discuss@ or not even contain those if
>  the message was a BCC. (Why you'd BCC to a list, I don't know, but
>  you could.)
>
>  At the moment, I'm not filtering Gnhlug messages. I've also been
>  receiving huge amounts of spam lately and haven't had the time to set
>  up anti-spam measures on my mail server here at sigio.com. Seems that
>  every weekend when I plan to do this, my wife comes up with some
>  "more important" to do.
>
>  Anyway, I think that subject line tagging would be helpful. What do
>  others think?

I've been filtering on To/CC/From GNHLUG for years without a problem.
I've never had an email not get filtered properly.
I would not like to clutter the subject line with something extraneous.
(Even though, sometimes, the subject line itself is extraneous to the 
email anyways. ;-)

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