Re: Email subject line
Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 05:50:41 -0400
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:31:24AM -0400, afei@jhu.edu wrote:
> Hi, Guys:
>
> I am a new comer to this email list and presumably I should shut up for
> a while. But this is really a traffic email-list and I got about 100
> emails everyday, which stuffed my mailbox and made it very hard for me
> to read other kinds of emails--emails from friends, department activities,
> etc.
>
> I have a little suggestion as to the email subject line being sent out
> by the email list server program. Can we add something like [LK] in front
> of every email subject line? LK stands for Linux Kernel. I was in several
> other email list before which has high traffic too. They did something
> like this and it was very neat.
>
> This amount of traffic almost scared the hell out of me and it
> surely stoped some people from joining us. So hope my suggestions can be
> adopted.
>
> with regards to all your hard working developers,
> Fei
It would probably be easier for you to use some sort of filtering (procmail
works nice, and Netscape/Outlook on windows has the ability aswell).
I'm sub'd to over 20 mailing lists, and get about 2k emails a day...even with
a subject line, I couldn't do it without procmail filtering.
Ben
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