David Rodemaker wrote: >>Me, I'm on the other side, as usual. I apprciate having the mailgroup >>name in the subject line, where that's provided. >> >>Mia > > I agree. If it's trivial one way, I don't see how it's not trivial the > other. Having something there would make life much easier. > > David There are several reasons why many people don't like mailing list names in subjects. One is that it's a waste of space. For filtering purposes, the list already adds several unique headers to each message, and any respectable mail client will allow you to filter based on a header. Another reason is that having the list name at the front of every subject can screw up threading and sorting. Most mail clients automatically insert "Re: " in front of the subject when replying, which would result in "Re: [Dragaera] Blah blah blah". Furthermore, filtering by subject is a bad idea because it screws up personal replies. Some people, myself included, prefer to have personal replies to list messages go to my inbox, whereas public list messages get filtered into their own folder. If someone is filtering by subject, a personal reply to a message that was originally posted to the list will probably still contain the "[Dragaera]" tag and will thus be filtered into the list folder with all the public list messages, making it difficult to differentiate between what's public and what's private. If you want a reliable filter that will always catch messages posted to the list, regardless of subject, filter based on the "Mailing-List" header. For this list, that header always contains the text "contact dragaera-help at dragaera.info; run by ezmlm". This keeps redundancy out of the subject, it allows you to keep public and private messages separated, and it doesn't screw up threading or sorting. -- Ryan Grove ryan at wonko.com http://wonko.com/