RE: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-19 Thread Jamin Collins
e: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud! Would it make sense to automatically send out a 'list-etiquette' message to each and everyone who subscribe to the list? Preferably in a different msg than the the subscription confirmation. Something like: ===

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-19 Thread Charles Galpin
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > I can, and do use procmail to move emails from the various lists I subscribe to > to the correct folder. That is easy. What I can;t imagine doing (well I can > image it I guess, just not how) is writing a recipe that will parse the body and > build a u

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-19 Thread Charles Galpin
yes, I think this should be done (and include their password, and a *detailed* description of how to unsubscribe). On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Would it make sense to automatically send out a 'list-etiquette' message > to each and everyone who subscribe to the list? > > Prefer

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-19 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Would it make sense to automatically send out a 'list-etiquette' message to each and everyone who subscribe to the list? Preferably in a different msg than the the subscription confirmation. Something like: === Welcome, Please, do: a) Use descriptive subject lines (or your

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-18 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote: > > And for this reason the list appears to have voted down the [RHL] being > > added to the subject line? Logic defies me. We want better subject lines, > > but we don't want help with the subject line. > > > > I'd love to have

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote: > And for this reason the list appears to have voted down the [RHL] being > added to the subject line? Logic defies me. We want better subject lines, > but we don't want help with the subject line. > > I'd love to have [RHL] as part of the subject line. So, e

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subjectlines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Frampton
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote: > Be that as it may, rpjday makes a good point. Many of us do get gobs of mail, > and many of us are IT service types who get random mail from users all the > time. A blank or nondescript subject line from the list looks just like same > from a user