On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:19:56AM +1000, Nigel A. Chapman wrote: > The list does not prefix its postings with the list name, eg. > [debian-kde] (as in my subject line). This makes the postings very > difficult to visually distinguish from the couple of dozen spam messages > in my inbox. I administer a number of yahoogroups and mailman lists, > and believe this to be sufficently 'standard' that I'm surprised not to > find it on the debian lists.
AFAIK, it's a deliberate decision by the list admins. A lot of people just find it annoying to waste space in the subject line, given how trivial it is to filter mail from lists into specific folder... I use mutt and adding [debian-kde] to each subject line would take away about a third of the available subject space. I think that space would be much better spent describing the subject of your email:) > It has occurred to me that I could probably set up filtering in Mozilla > to use the X-Loop (or some other) header as a send-to-a-folder criterion > to get around this, but (1) there will be lots and lots of potential > users who wouldn't think of that, (2) no other list I subscribe to > requires this and (3) I'm not yet sure of the value of belonging to this > list, due to this problem, so I'm not too inclined to spend a much time. > looking into that. Maybe that's lazy, yes. :) I've found the Debian lists to be some of the friendliest around. If you ever need help with general Debian issues, debian-user will sort you out, while here is for KDE specific stuff. -rob
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