utomo wrote: > I can catagorize my email using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as rules. But it is a > suggestions. > In many mailing list (I guess more than 70%) they use a subject as > indicator. I think it also one of the good way to do. We did not need to > be a different, or do somethings which others did not do.
Please look at the headers of any message on this list. There are already tons of unique identifying headers that are easy to filter on: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-(my address) AT cygwin.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin.com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin.com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin.com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> (note above: s/@/ AT /g;) Any of those make good filters. I use "Mailing-List contains cygwin.com". That filters almost every message correctly with hardly any false negatives or positives. If you're having problems filtering, I suggest you do something similar. If your mail program can't filter on arbitrary headers then I suggest you use one that has the features you require. As far as "other lists do it", that's a bad argument. I too am on many other lists, and am THANKFUL that cygwin does not mutilate the subject line. Having a tag in the subject is just noise once the message has been filtered to its destination. It takes up screen real-estate. You can read more of a subject line in limited column width if there's no stupid tag on every message taking up space. Its only purpose is for mechanical filtering, not human consumption, and thus it should be in a location where only automated programs see it, such as the already-present headers. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
