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Given that there are several headers on every message from the mailing list that will positively identify the message as coming from a mailing list already, is there really any need to make the subject lines scroll the right end of the screen by adding grandiose tags with the list name to the start of every list message? The only obvious use for such tags that I see is waste space and make the list harder to read.
On Sep 17, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Given that there are several headers on every message from the mailing list that will positively identify the message as coming from a mailing list already,
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Personally I *hate* it when mailing lists don't include the human-readable subject tags. When I have to dive into an alternate mail reader which doesn't do my filtering, it's very hard to find anything. It's also more difficult to identify search results when searching my archives if there are no subject tags.
On the other hand, I'm sure you're quite capable of removing the tags with a procmail filter if you don't like them. ;)
It would be nice if mailman had this as a per-subscriber setting, but it doesn't appear to be at present. If you can whip up a patch for mailman (or point out how to enable such a per-subscriber option if it is there), that would be great.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Very few clients show all the headers.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:01:49 -0700, Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org wrote:
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Jamie Bliss astronouth7303@gmail.com writes:
Very few clients show all the headers.
It doesn't matter, because you can still sort by those other headers.
Quoting Paul Johnson, from the post of Fri, 17 Sep:
Very few clients show all the headers.
It doesn't matter, because you can still sort by those other headers.
not really. most of the world (sigh) uses Micro$oft LookOut(tm). I am a happy user of Mutt on Linux, and my mail filteration is a bunch of .qmail files. Never found the need (in 14 years of using Unix) to learn procmail, I have a simple sed script to make my subject pretty. I have many complaints about mailing list servers and users, but this is not one of my problems :-)))
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Ira Abramov nospam-MediaWiki-l-20040612@ira.abramov.org writes:
Quoting Paul Johnson, from the post of Fri, 17 Sep:
Very few clients show all the headers.
It doesn't matter, because you can still sort by those other headers.
not really. most of the world (sigh) uses Micro$oft LookOut(tm).
Which can filter by arbitrary header.
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