Mailing list suggestion.

[Mike Klinke]

On Sunday 16 November 2003 04:01, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
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> I was just thinking that I get a ton of posts from the fedora mailing
> lists. Why does fedora not use [Fedora-list] etc in the posts? It
> would be allot easier to organize and recognize posts from others
> that way. - --
 

Whenever this comes up there is a veritable chorus of protests and I 
guess my voice can be found in the baritone section too.  It's not 
necessary as there are ample header fields to sort your mail into the 
folder of your choice; take your message for example:

To: fedora-list at redhat.com
X-loop: fedora-list at redhat.com
Sender: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
X-BeenThere: fedora-list at redhat.com
Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
List-Help: <mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>,
	<mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: For users of Red Hat Linux releases <fedora-list.redhat.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>,
	<mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/>

It's a pretty rare mail program that won't sort mail on at least one or 
more of these fields.  Adding that to the subject is just that much 
more visual clutter that you have to look past and takes up too much 
space in an already crowded screen.  For people who sort it's entirely 
redundant to see a whole column of messages in a folder with all of 
them starting out  [Whatever-list].

Regards,  Mike Klinke