Kaan O. Erdener (kaan@cs.utexas.edu)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:37:36 -0500 (CDT)
I'm all for prepending "[yellowdog-general]" to each subject header.
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Evan Read wrote:
> I have one big inbox too. Hence this works better for me.
>
> If the majority hate it, then we can cancel it. It will work better if
> people remember to shorten the subjects to a bare length (as I did for this
> email - in this case, it doesn't hurt the information contained wihtin the
> subject line).
>
> >This is also true.
> >If any of you use a unix account for email, surely you have Procmail.
> >Also, most major email clients do have a filtering system.
> >
> >As for me, I like one large inbox.
> >Again, I can remove the subject prefix, I thought I'd add it for a bit and
> >if enough ppl hate it I can remove it.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Craig Roberts wrote:
> >
> >> > If this isn't possible (if not, can you really call yourself a Linux
> >> > Company? ;), then perhaps (like this is gonna happen ;), by convention, we
> >> > need to indicate in all our subjects that the message relates to the
> >> > YDLGeneral Mailling list.
> >> I disagree. There's no need to indicate the origination of a message in the
> >> Subject heading - I would rather that was used to describe the content
> >>of the
> >> msg itself.
> >> Surely, you are using a emailer with Rules processing for filtering messages
> >> according to the TCP headers?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> -+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+
> >> Craig Roberts, ANZCS Senior IT Consultant
> >> e-mail: craig@rata.cce.ac.nz
> >>
> >> Tel: +64 3 343 7750 Fax: +64 3 348 4311
> >> College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
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