Re: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:41:27 +0100
> From: Ulf Lamping <ulf lamping web de>
> Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
>     <dia-list gnome org>
> To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
> Subject: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm subscribed to many mailing lists, which usually have a prefix like:
> [ethereal-dev] or [scite].
>
> This makes it easy to sort out the incoming mails from spam, and sort
> them automatically into a special folder.

There are many other things you can also filter on other than the subject
line (various mail headers, the footnote that is always included, etc).

> As mail subjects like: "How Do I?" will usually considered spam by
> myself (yes, and I'm using a good spamfilter).

I would encourage people to use more descriptive subject lines, think
of it as a summary and if you can describe the gist of the whole message
in just one line then please do.

It looks as if you are using a Mozilla based mail client.
If you spamfilter is good it doesn't sound like it is well configured.

> Using the digest mode will have such a prefix, but this makes it much
> harder to respond to a mail.

If you get the Digest in MIME mode it is possible to reply to individual
messages if you have a clever mail client.

> Any chance that a prefix like [dia] to the mailing list mails could be
> added?

I would very strongly prefer if the subject line was left as is.

With all due respect I highly recommend you invest in a mail program that
supports message threading, which makes it far easier to indentify mailing
list discussions.

- Alan