Administrivia: Subject line tagging

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Sun Apr 18 13:56:01 EDT 2004


On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:21:32AM -0400, Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> 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.)

I won't bother repating what else was said, but just mention that 
I agree with it.  What I thought to add, though, is that for more exact 
filtering of mail messages sent to this list, use the List-Id header:

List-Id: GNHLUG general discussion list <gnhlug-discuss.mail.gnhlug.org>

-- 
Bob Bell



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