On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:07:51AM -0600, Paul Knappenberger <knappenp at interaccess.com> wrote: > On a related note, sorta, is it possible to change the standardized > subject line for the group to include a global word? For instance, all > subjects could begin with [Dragaera] or [Vlad], which would make filtering > the mail easier... Oh God Please No. It is extremely trivial to use header fields that don't take up massive amounts of space in the subject line to do this. > I read my mail in Pine. This account has existed for long enough that I'm > prone to receiving roughly two hundred mail messages a day, of which 40% > or so is junk and 60% is worth reading. I tend to sweep through my email > looking only at subject lines, and if it's not a thread I recognize I tend > to delete it. I don't want to miss out on these generally interesting > conversations by accidentally deleting a whole thread by mistake. If you're reading mail in Pine already, you already have the capability to do your mail filtering right. And as a general UNIX advocacy thing I would be glad to help you set this up. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp