Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:51:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: Joe Konecny <jkonecn@green-mfg.com>, FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A request to the list owner. Message-ID: <19990702095145.D87392@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907020103040.11618-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from Dean Hollister on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:06:21AM %2B0800 References: <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907020103040.11618-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Friday, 2 July 1999 at 1:06:21 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Joe Konecny wrote: > >> Would it be possible to concatenate a standard header to the >> subject line of all messages originating from the FreeBSD >> mailing list? Something like "FreeBSD> Whatever subject" >> >> This makes managing mail easier for me and I would think >> others would find it useful. > > The FreeBSD guys are using majordomo, right? > > In that case, it's very easy to setup. Just add the line > > subject_prefix = QUESTIONS: > > To listname.config (listname being whatever the list is called in the > majordomo directory). Sure, it's simple. As others have observed, it's not desirable. There are finer-grained ways to sort your mail. > Also, how about adding another line to the config file, to set the > reply-to field to questions@freebsd.org? > > reply_to = questions@freebsd.org > > It would certainly make life easier, as all replies would go back to the > list. Well, no. The recommended way to reply to messages on this list is to the list *and* to the original recipients; that's why I put the text in my .sig when I reply to this list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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