Re: Subject Prefix in the mailing list

[Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>]

Olaf FrÄczyk wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 04:34 -0700, Van H Tran wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm just wondering if gtk-app-devel-list mailing list
> > should include some prefix, something like
> > [gtk-app-dev] before each subject? 
> >
> > I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists and it can get
> > quite confusing sometimes.
> Hi,
>
> Adding prefix makes subjects less readable.
>
> 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 :-)

-- 
Sander