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

[Ben Hetland <ben a hetland sintef no>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> 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).

FWIW; unfortunately I discovered the other day that not all mail clients 
are very flexible about this. Sadly I don't remember exactly which 
client it was (could have been a former KMail version for Linux, some 
Netscape, or some web-based service), but anyway I was only allowed to 
choose from a VERY limited set of headers in the filtering setup.

While I'm not personally very fond of these "prefixes" myself, this 
would be an incentive to introduce such extra markup anyway. (Like the 
use of "Reply-To" is also a similar issue of great disagreement.)

I suggest that if one absolutely feels the urge to include such extra 
"tags", perhaps one should consider it as a suffix instead. That way at 
least this is the first part that is hidden from subject columns not 
wide enough.


> 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.

Some tips about this also in
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html>


-+-Ben-+-