On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:57:48PM -0500, Alvin Thompson wrote: > i honestly don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a way to prepend the > subject lines of mailing list mails. this is a very basic feature, and > every mailing list program worth using has it. if you do not want to use > it, you should be able to turn it off. but surely you can see why it > would be useful.
Actually, most mail clients only display a small portion of the Subject: line, so using up a significant portion of it for [mailing-list-foo] is quite unreasonable. > FYI, the software i often use to check my email is PapiMail on Treo > 600/300 phones. i have to choose what to download (or delete) based on > the subject line. there is no room on the display to show anything else > besides the subject/from fields without making it too awkward to use. I suggest you use something like procmail to prepend a string to the Subject: line of the emails you receive from this list in a way that works with your palm email reading software. That way you can have the [geronimo-dev] prefix or whatever prefix you want without forcing everyone else to do the same. -aaron
