Re: Look before you post (fwd)

Marc Bizer(mlbizer[at]mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:03:50 +0200

On 7/16/98 at 9:23 AM -0700, Darryl Lee wrote:
>Anyways Marc, i was actually thinking [WinMac] might be a good subject
>prefix. i would suspect that LetterRip can do this. (Since it's
>probably trying to keep up with Majordomo's feature set.)

Ed Humes wrote:

> May I make a suggestion? (I can already sense you tensing up) Can the
> subject line be appended with some sort of designator to identify the list?
> I am thinking of "WMCL" or something equally short and sweet. For people
> like me who get nearly a hundred messages a day it help to sort them (and
> file them by subject also).

I'm not tensing up. I don't really understand why I need to put in a
subject prefix, when it is easier (for me, anyway :-) ) for you simply to
have your email program look for messages coming from
xerxes.frit.utexas.edu, or from winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu. Doesn't it
have filters?

We could also ask subscribers to voluntarily comply with some sort of
subject header naming convention.

        --Marc

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