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 > > >
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