(Xfce) another thought about the list

[Don Christensen]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 10/13/2005 2:10 PM, John Altstatt wrote:
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>>Is it possible to prefix the subject line with "xfce" as I have done above
>>automatically? This makes the list messages standout and easy to filter 
>>from among
>>the hundreds of garbage messages I receive. Some other lists do this, 
>>but I don't know
>>how.
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> That kind of subject-line clutter tends to annoy me.  I'd suggest doing
> "show full headers" or "view source" on this message.  There are several
> headers at the top of the message that can be used to filter xfce
> messages to specific folders, given a halfway-decent mail client.
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> 	-brian

I'm not aware of any client that can't filter on To: and CC:,
which is generally sufficient to pick out mailing list traffic.
I agree with Brian that adding the list name to the front of
the subject is just annoying clutter.

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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