From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 4 02:10:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27804 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 02:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27799 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 02:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21130; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:09:08 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA27600; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:07:47 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980904100746.A27587@iii.co.uk> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:07:46 +0100 To: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists References: <2543.904882634@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 03:16:09PM +1000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 03:16:09PM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > While we're on the subject, would it be possible to make the subject's > of posts to various freebsd-* lists be something like: > Subject: [freebsd-chat] Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists > > Several mailing lists I am on do this currently and it makes reading > mail that little bit easier. Ye gods no. What works for me is to use Procmail to filter messages from each list into a list specific mailbox (one for hackers, one for chat, one for questions, and so on). Then run xbuffy, telling it to watch all these mailboxes. You then get an alert when new mail arrives, and an indication of which mailbox it has arrived in. Then it's just a simple case of middle-clicking the mailbox name to fire up an xterm running Mutt on the correct list. Alternatively, I could configure Mutt to know about the different lists, and work through them within one instance of the program, but I prefer the multiple window approach. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 8 days. ]==+-- She's still dead. Deal with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message