The headers include :-
to: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
mailing list: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
mailed-by: gnucash.org
if those aren't sufficient to filter on what is :-)
Cheers Dave H.
On 11 April 2018 at 10:11, William Bixby <wbi...@usa.net> wrote:
> Adrien, my headers for your message show this email is from you, not the
> list:
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.3 \(3445.6.18\))
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:17:55 -0500
> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix
> List-Id: General Accounting Discussions <gnucash-user.gnucash.org>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/10/2018 06:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>
>> The mail already *is* from the list.
>>
>> This can get flubbed when people start using reply-all and leaving the
>> original senders in the mix. As this continues in the thread, individual
>> e-mail addresses start bouncing around between To and CC and the list
>> address usually gets relegated to CC permanently. But it doesn’t matter
>> because one can always set their filters to include To, CC and From (if not
>> also, or instead, reply-to) and there should be no issue.
>>
>> There is a case for reply-all, but it involves cross-posted messages (to
>> other lists) or one-off participants who aren’t list members. This is
>> pretty rare here. (Occasionally you’ll see a message posted on both -dev
>> and -user but not often and so many are on both) I don’t think I’ve seen
>> any cross-postings to outside lists. On the off chance a non-member
>> participates (with moderator approval) it would likely be obvious and you
>> could include their personal address.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Question for those who want the [GNC] prefix:
>>> Would having the email from be from the list (gnucash-user@gnucash.org)
>>> instead of the user (original sender) serve as well?
>>>
>>> This would also help with the "remember to reply to the list" issue.
>>> Reply,
>>> Reply-all, Reply-list would include the list address.
>>> I believe the mailing list software would still put the original sender
>>> address in the headers so that an off-list reply would be possible.
>>>
>>> Some view this type of address munging as being bad but I believe that in
>>> the case of gnucash-user this is the de facto preference of the
>>> maintainers
>>> and developers.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, listreader wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Your tally probably doesn't mean what you think it means. In my
>>>>
>>>>> experience, far more people are likely to complain about 'changes' they
>>>>> don't like than are people who approve or are neutral about the same
>>>>> 'changes'. Like on a ratio of 10 to 1 or greater.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Please add my vote to the neutral category. I subscribe to about a
>>>> dozen
>>>> mail lists, most use a list-related prefix in brackets; a couple don't.
>>>> Because incoming messages are sorted into list-specific files the only
>>>> time
>>>> the prepended tags matter is when multiple lists cover the same topic.
>>>>
>>>> GnuCash is the only bookkeeping application I use so a prepended tag
>>>> makes
>>>> no difference to me. But, for those who don't automatically sort
>>>> incoming
>>>> messages it could well be helpful.
>>>>
>>>> If having it present does no harm there's no reason to remove it, in
>>>> my
>>>> opinion. If you're reading e-mail on a phone, watch, or other small
>>>> device
>>>> and cannot see the entire subject line you probably have the ability to
>>>> scroll horizontally as well as vertically.
>>>>
>>>> Rich
>>>>
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