Re: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf lamping web de>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> > I'm subscribed to many mailing lists, which usually have a prefix like:
> > [ethereal-dev] or [scite].
> >
> > This makes it easy to sort out the incoming mails from spam, and sort
> > them automatically into a special folder.
> >    
>
> There are many other things you can also filter on other than the subject
> line (various mail headers, the footnote that is always included, etc).
>
>  
As described earlier, I changed my filter accordingly.

> > As mail subjects like: "How Do I?" will usually considered spam by
> > myself (yes, and I'm using a good spamfilter).
> >    
>
> I would encourage people to use more descriptive subject lines, think
> of it as a summary and if you can describe the gist of the whole message
> in just one line then please do.
>  
Yes, I really do appreciate that, as you might see on the subject line 
I've used.

> It looks as if you are using a Mozilla based mail client.
> If you spamfilter is good it doesn't sound like it is well configured.
>
>  
Or I don't want to spend hours on configuring my mail client and my spam 
filter.

> > Using the digest mode will have such a prefix, but this makes it much
> > harder to respond to a mail.
> >    
>
> If you get the Digest in MIME mode it is possible to reply to individual
> messages if you have a clever mail client.
>
>  
Yes, I'm using a dump mail client and I am a dump user (see above).

> > Any chance that a prefix like [dia] to the mailing list mails could be
> > added?
> >    
>
> I would very strongly prefer if the subject line was left as is.
>
> With all due respect I highly recommend you invest in a mail program that
> supports message threading, which makes it far easier to indentify mailing
> list discussions.
>
>  
You're kidding. You really trying to tell me that I should better use a 
different mail client to effectively participate in the dia development?

I'm participating in www.ethereal.com development for quite a while now, 
and sometimes got funny responses from other developers from time to 
time. But that was the best joke I've seen so far.


I respect the opinion that the way the mailing list is better the way it 
currently is, I just wanted to improve things up to my very limited 
knowledge.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Regards, ULFL