Re: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
Aaarrrgggh! Techo-weenie-babble!! But, seriously, Nick, are you saying that small-case wow and paw at the end of a subject line won't work for you and others in your situation? If so, (and this isn't directed to you, but others who have a concern in this matter) what exactly should we do about this? I want to be a Good List Member, I want to cause the least amount of inconvenience for the most amount of people (kind of a mantra of my life, which is likely why I'm where I am today), but I'm getting contradictory requests now. Non sequitor: Speaking of mantras, my sister gave me a t-shirt for Christmas, which says: "I'm kind of like a superhero, with no powers or motivation". Kind of sums up my life. My sister knows me all too well. Okay, back to the topic at hand. I think we need a decision from the judges here. If I don't hear anything, I believe I'll just put paw and wow in small case letters at the end, as that seems to bother the least number. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: "Nick Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:34:44 - Not on a PDA screen it isn't as the end is truncated. I read all my PDML messages on an Ipaq and find the PREfix useful a I can order by subject and deal with the high volume of traffic that way. The PDA email client doesn't have sophisticated parsing and filtering options like a desktop client. Nick -Original Message- From: "Bob W"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Example: This is a legible subject line (paw) _ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
Re: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
Not on a PDA screen it isn't as the end is truncated. I read all my PDML messages on an Ipaq and find the PREfix useful a I can order by subject and deal with the high volume of traffic that way. The PDA email client doesn't have sophisticated parsing and filtering options like a desktop client. Nick -Original Message- From: "Bob W"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Example: This is a legible subject line (paw)
Re: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
Hi, Saturday, March 13, 2004, 9:50:36 PM, Shel wrote: > Interesting ... never though about that. Mabe on one's "doing it" then and some > mail programs just make their own decisions for us. ;-)) if people would put it at the end of the subject, in lower case, then it wouldn't happen. It would still be visible to filters, it would make the line readable for humans, and it wouldn't piss me off so much that I never open any of the paw or wow emails. Example: This is a legible subject line (paw) -- Cheers, Bob
Re: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
Interesting ... never though about that. Mabe on one's "doing it" then and some mail programs just make their own decisions for us. ;-)) Kevin Thornsberry wrote: > Shel, I noticed this on a recent post of mine. > > When I hit "reply" the WOW: at the beginning disappeared. I believe it is > because the subject became "WOW:" Outlook stripped it out for me, I guess, with > the same algorithm that keeps subject lines from becoming something like > > "RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: FW: RE: RE: FW: RE: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject" > > I wonder if putting "WOW -" instead wold work better. I'll send a test to make > sure. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:27 PM > To: PDML > Subject: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject > > > I've noticed that a number of messages have the PAW or WOW stripped from the > subject line when comments are made about the photos. The idea of putting PAW > and WOW into the subject line was to allow people to identify the messages and > to perhaps filter them in their mail system. Would whoever is doing this please > stop and leave the subject line as it was originally. Thanks!
RE: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
Shel, I noticed this on a recent post of mine. When I hit "reply" the WOW: at the beginning disappeared. I believe it is because the subject became "WOW:" Outlook stripped it out for me, I guess, with the same algorithm that keeps subject lines from becoming something like "RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: FW: RE: RE: FW: RE: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject" I wonder if putting "WOW -" instead wold work better. I'll send a test to make sure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:27 PM To: PDML Subject: Stripping PAW and WOW from subject I've noticed that a number of messages have the PAW or WOW stripped from the subject line when comments are made about the photos. The idea of putting PAW and WOW into the subject line was to allow people to identify the messages and to perhaps filter them in their mail system. Would whoever is doing this please stop and leave the subject line as it was originally. Thanks!
Stripping PAW and WOW from subject
I've noticed that a number of messages have the PAW or WOW stripped from the subject line when comments are made about the photos. The idea of putting PAW and WOW into the subject line was to allow people to identify the messages and to perhaps filter them in their mail system. Would whoever is doing this please stop and leave the subject line as it was originally. Thanks!
