Dragaera

A request for a list tag in the subject

Mon Mar 14 15:58:26 PST 2005

To the list admins;

Sorry for not addressing you by name, but after looking at my welcome
message and the drageara.info home page, I still wasn't able to figure out
who actually runs the list. 

I'm wondering if the list software would support prefixing the subject lines
of list email with an ID tag. Something like this:

Subject: [DRAGAERA] If Vlad fought Batman, who would win?

There are two benefits to this. The first is that it easily identifies any
list email messages mixed in with non-list messages by simply sorting by
subject. The other is that it allows one to create an anti-spam rule that
doesn't rely on knowing the email address of the sender. This is especially
important because the list defaults to "reply to sender" instead of "reply
to mailing list". It's not unusual at all for me to find a Dragaera list
reply in my in-box or my spam-box that was sent to me privately
(intentionally or not). If those messages had a list tag in the subject then
I could identify them and create a rule to file them correctly instead of
missing them because Norton decided they were spam.

I don't see a down side to this (though that may be due to having subscribed
to other lists that did this and becoming accustomed to it). If it's within
the capacity of the list software, I'd very much like to see it happen. 

Thanks!

Scott Schultz