Dragaera

A request for a list tag in the subject

Mon Mar 14 16:31:51 PST 2005

Scott,

Alas, one of the great undead questions of mailing lists.  I'm on *your* 
side, 'cause otherwise you have to know everyone by name.

Others say, well, just sort Dragaera into a file and it's all in one 
place.  Listname tag takes up space in header.  etc.

We do replies wrong, too . . . they go to sender, not to the list.

Mia

Scott Schultz wrote:

>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. 
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>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?
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>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
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