On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:18, Jerome Yanga wrote: > Like many, I subscribe to a lot of mailing list. When I create a rule > in Outlook and put all the email addresses of all the mailing lists > that I subscribe to, Outlook comes back to me and says that I have > used up the maximum rules. I cannot give you the exact error I get > but it is something to that effect. This is the reason why I started > using the subject line to organize my emails instead of the From > field. Using the subject line in the rules seem to allow me to have > just one rule for all the subscriptions that I am on.
I guess I don't understand why Outlook would allow you to create rules using the Subject header but impose a restrictions on rules using all other headers. Even if that's the case, we're not interested in adding a mailing list subject prefix, for all the usual reasons. I was hoping I could find a pre-written explanation somewhere I could link you to, but I can't at the moment. The two reasons that spring immediately to mind are: 1) Adding a subject prefix reduces the amount of space available for useful subject information. I already filter all mailing lists into their own folders, using the headers already available to do that; I don't want each message in that folder to have a prefix on the subject line making it harder for me to see what the real subject of the message is. At the current size of my mail program's main window, I only have about 7 cm for the subject; I don't want a third of that used up with a prefix that adds no value. 2) Modifying the subject header violates email sending RFCs. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
