Re: [obsd-tech] Subjects

[Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan_(_at_)_CS_(_dot_)_WM_(_dot_)_EDU>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:11PM +0000, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> I know Theo doesn't like subject lines and doesn't care about this,
> but the convention beginning to be adopted as a standard by common
> usage on other mailing lists is for the list manager to preface subject
> lines with the mailing list name in square brackets as I have done 
> with this message.  It helps with differentiation of list traffic from
> other mail in visual scanning by humans and automated processing by 
> machines.  Does anyone else think this might be a good idea for the 
> openbsd lists to differentiate traffic when it arrives into one 
> common mailbox?
> 
> Just an idea from someone who arguably subscribes to too many 
> lists and gets too much mail... :-)
> 

What for? There are so many ways to deal with that on your side. For
example, I use mutt and a single line in my .mutt/muttrc file solves the
problem.

subscribe announce_(_at_)_OpenBSD_(_dot_)_org security-announce_(_at_)_OpenBSD_(_dot_)_org \
tech_(_at_)_OpenBSD_(_dot_)_org misc_(_at_)_OpenBSD_(_dot_)_org

Then I see your message and replies to it as:

      3 N   Jun 12 To tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  20) [obsd-tech] Subjects
      4 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  34) |->
      5 N   Jun 12 To tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  22) | `->
      6 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  51) |   |->
      7 N   Jun 13 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  13) |   `->
      8 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  10) |*>
      9 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (   9) | `->
     10 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  23) |->
     11 N   Jun 12 To tech_(_at_)_openbsd (  37) |->
     12 N   Jun 12 Cc tech_(_at_)_openbsd (   5) `->

Notice that even CC's are sorted according to the list, although the
original message is sent to somebody else.

I find that much more convenient than the long subject. Other good mail
clients have nice filtering too and there's also procmail.

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Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan_(_at_)_cs_(_dot_)_wm_(_dot_)_edu>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/