#hea (hea@ix.netcom.com)
Wed, 7 Apr 99 09:59:18 -0700
>I have one big inbox too. Hence this works better for me.
I prefer subjects that indicate content of message rather than source of
message.
I use the To, From, CC, BCC, ISP, etc. to sort messages.
>
>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).
I don't know about the majority, but I hate it ;-).
>
>>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.
removing it would be nice :-)
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
>> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
>> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
>--
>Evan
>> 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.
>Er, yeah - see how messy it gets. Sorry, but I dont always have time or even
>remember to edit the subject field.
>
>Votes so far: For 1 (do you count, Dan? ;-) - Against 1.
Things get real messy real fast with modified subjects. At BEST you will
end up with THREE threads for each real thread. The origonal, a
[yellowdog-general], and a Re:[yellowdog-general].
If people need to edit the subjects, then let the RECEIVERS modify the
subjects so we don't all have to wade through:
Re: [yellowdog-general] Re: [yellowdog-general] Re:
[yellowdog-general] Re: Maillist
Additionally, what good does it do if ONLY yellowdog does this subject
editing. You can't really group your other mail lists by subject. (
unless you add them yourself ;-)
...Harlan
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