Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:45:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Joe Konecny <jkonecn@green-mfg.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A request to the list owner. Message-ID: <19990701234535.A96643@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <377C3689.F13F33A3@green-mfg.com>; from "Joe Konecny" on Thu Jul 1 23:48:25 GMT 1999 References: <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com> <19990701145914.U67907@001101.zer0.org> <377C3689.F13F33A3@green-mfg.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 01), Joe Konecny said: > Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:07:31PM -0400, 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" Remember there are approximately 40 active *@freebsd.org lists. Please create an appropriate tag for all of them, making sure that each list is recognizable by its tag and that tags won't be confused with any tags on any other mailinglist not hosted by freebsd.org :) > > There are many reasons why this is a really bad idea. I'll let > > others go into them, as they already have. :) If you're using > > procmail, though, you could use this recipe to file your FreeBSD > > mail into various folders: > > I think you guys are over-reacting. It's not that big of a deal. > I belong to two other lists and both use a standard subject header > stuck before your own. They obviously filter out multiple entries > too because I never see the RE: Subject RE: Subject RE: Subject > that so many are worried about. On a single list it's not too bad. I used to remove the subject tag on the mysql list with procmail. (they have since stopped tagging subjects :) What gets really annoying is when there were cross-list messages, like php3<->mysql. Neither list would remove the _other_ list's tags, so you got "re: [mysql] re: [php3]". 19 wasted columns. That's 1/4 of my screen (and 1/2 of my subject area) wasted. I still don't see why a tag is necessary. There are at least five headers in each message that can be used to filter messages:
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