On 10/15/06, Marcus Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what about if we put "[django-users]" (or something like this) string > at the begining of subject of our e-mails? It will be more easy to > identify all e-mails tha came from that list.
Big -1. I'm not sure that would really make it any "easier" than it already is; pretty much every email client supports filtering on arbitrary bits of the message, so it's extremely simple to set up a filter which looks for "To: django-users@googlegroups.com" and does something special with it. Some suggestions: * In most traditional email clients, it's easy enough to set up a folder, call it "django users", and use a filter to send all mail from the list into it, by looking for "To: django-users@googlegroups.com". * In Gmail you can apply arbitrary "labels" to messages, so setting one up for "django users" and using a filter to apply it to all mail from the list is easy. Again, you just filter on "To: django-users@googlegroups.com". The alternative of putting the list name in the message subject has some noteworthy usability drawbacks; the biggest is that it reduces the portion of the subject line you can see when skimming your inbox -- sooner or later, the subject line has to be cut off to fit in the width of the window, and every bit of "helpful" stuff a mailing list inserts before the actual subject line cuts off a bit of the real subject that you'd see otherwise. For example, I'm subscribed to a couple of lists which do this; if I don't run my email window full-screen, I end up seeing something like this: [css-d] Need help with [wsg] Site broken in M Need help with what? Site broken? Is it in Mozilla? MSIE? Mosaic? If the lists didn't do this, I *could* be seeing Need help with floats Site broken in Mozilla Since I'm already having my email client filter things sensibly, I would know which lists they came from regardless of the [list-name] junk in the subject lines, but because it's in there I can't see enough of the subject line to make out what the message is about. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
