Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 09:27 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote:
> I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List.
>
> Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful
> word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re",
> "Re ", or "Re:" which is fine when the subject is prefixed with "[List-ID]".
>
> I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from non
> Debian email because of this
> insistence of the Debian List to use "Re" at the beginning of the
> subject. Whereas, I have no such problem with the greater majority of
> other lists because the first part of the subject identifies these other
> lists. Also, and only from the Debian Lists, I get BLANK subjects --
> lots of them.
>
> The point here is that it would be nice as well as professional if one
> could automatically filter and view email according to a single
> convention which most of the other lists have done. In my view, using
> "Re subject" when "subject" can be anything is confusing and blank
> "subject" makes no sense to me at all.
>
> I use (and will continue to use) THUNDERBIRD for Linux, MS, and other
> email correspondence. Perhaps someone could suggest how I might bridge
> this problem with Debian email.
>
> Thanks -- Ted Hilts
>
>
>
filter on recipient. -> debian-user@lists.debian.org <-
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