at 07:42 on 08.07.2006, John Gruber wrote: >Sam Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 7/8/06 at 11:16 >AM: > >> The [mailing-list-name] subject line addition is used in >> lots of places. Is there a reason that some people don't >> like it? Subject line gets too long? > >I personally find it distracting and unnecessary. For the >lists I'm subscribed to that do this, I set up filters in my >email client to strip these Subject-line prefixes out.
If you use a sufficiently powerful email client and/or can script your mail server, then the reverse (so to speak) of what John is doing is also possible. That is, you can script the *addition* of a "subject ID". FW*L*IW, I think its a matter of personal filtering policy. If you discretely filter markdown discuss messages, then all you need is in the headers. If you have a common filter for markdown-discuss messages and one, or more other message sources, then a secondary sort criteria for the mailbox, label, or whatever can be useful. This is where I see *some* value in "subject IDs". [Case in point : the 3 "BBEdit lists" (talk, scripting and web-dev)] [Of course, a sufficient abundance of "labels" in the client would make all of this unnecessary.] _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
