Re: Subject line

At 3:47 PM -0500 2/19/03, Richard G. Ball is rumored to have typed:

> Mostly because it is entirely unnecessary. All modern email clients that I
>know of let you filter your email into individual directories/folders.

   The one I'm using now is six years old, and it allows for this filtering.
Since this list is run via mailman (yeah, I know, the irony), the
X-BeenThere: header field is probably the preferred, although any of the
List-*: header fields would work as well. For SmartList mailing lists, the
X-Loop: header field is preferred.

> So, you can easily have a [smartlist] folder and a [photoshop] folder based
>on information in the headers that is already unique to that email list
>without adding extra text to the subject line (which I then have to strip
>off before I file my email).

   Yeah, I have an entire rc.mailinglist file filled with nothing but
recipies removing subject munges, removing footers, correcting list-added
Reply-To: header fields which destroy the ability to properly reply to
postings, etc., etc.

   NONE of this nonsense is necessary, IMHO, and the munges end up making it
_more_ difficult for anyone willing to spend a few moments reading the
documentation to their email client to properly manage their mail.

         Charlie Summers