Mailing list headers

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Jul 9 08:37:17 UTC 2001


On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Russell Allen wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> When I receive emails from the new list in Celeste, they come through
> as, for example:
>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:25:12 +1000
> From: Russell Allen <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com>
> Subject: MPEG Plugin in MacOS X Carbon
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> delivered-to: squeak-dev at lnx-1.theinternetone.net
> reply-to: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> list-help:
> <mailto:squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org?subject=help>
> list-post: <mailto:squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> list-subscribe: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/squeak-dev>,
> <mailto:squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org?subject=subscribe>
> list-id: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> <squeak-dev.lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> list-unsubscribe:
> <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/listinfo/squeak-dev>,
> <mailto:squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org?subject=unsubscrib
> e>
> list-archive: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/>
>
> This means that the header takes up all of my page, and I have to scroll
> down to find the content of the message!
>
> Should Celeste be hiding all of this stuff, or should the emails be sent
> out with fewer headers?

It should only display "interesting" mail headers. My email client has a
button to display all headers, and displays only From, To, Date, and
Subject by default. Additionally, it even recognizes the list admin
headers and can present a page with the links, like "If you want to get
help, click here. To unsubscribe, click over there."

-- Bert





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