From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 17:21:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317B014F5A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA07190; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:51:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA90312; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:51:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:51:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dean Hollister Cc: Joe Konecny , FreeBSD List Subject: Re: A request to the list owner. Message-ID: <19990702095145.D87392@freebie.lemis.com> References: <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dean Hollister on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:06:21AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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