Re: Subject Prefix in the mailing list

[Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch>]

Sander Marechal schrieb:
> > Adding prefix makes subjects less readable.

Ack. Especially because it's a /prefix/: The important part is moved
right and cropped in longer subjects.

> > Just filter it by "Sender" header and put it in different folder.
> > If you use IMAP it can be done on server side (eg. using sieve if using
> > cyrus imap server). If not, you can do it on client side (most non-
> > ancient MUAs support this).
>
>
> This works, until someone cross-post something to several lists. Then
> your filters break and everything end up in the same folder anyway :-)

Recent mailers (and sieve too) allows to filter the list-id header.
This works better than by receiver/sender.

Summary: Don't use a list prefix in subject, please.

Cheers, Andy