On the list itself

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Aug 4 22:41:50 UTC 1998


On the other hand, one can end up with nasty subjects like 

   [squeak] Re: [squeak] re: [squeak] some topic

I notice there is also a "X-Mailing-List:...squeak....".  in the
mail....  That should be pretty reliable so long as it sticks around.

Lex


Doug Way writes:
 > 
 > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Roland Jesse wrote:
 > 
 > > I do not like this idea. How about adding the string [squeak] as a
 > > prefix to the subject line? That's only one short config line for
 > > majordomo ;) and besides recognizing the mail as one coming from the
 > > list, you still know who the author is.
 > 
 > I agree with Roland, I'm on two other mailing lists and they both have a
 > short string with brackets at the beginning of the subject line
 > identifying themselves.  This is handy if your email program doesn't
 > support filtering on the reply-to field, for example.  Also, it could be
 > abbreviated to something like [Sq], although [squeak] or [Squeak] would be
 > fine, too.
 > 
 > - Doug Way
 >   dway at mat.net
 >   dway at transom.com
 >   http://www.transom.com
 > 
 > 





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