List tag in Subject (Re: Possible?)

Mary Gardiner mary-sounder at puzzling.org
Thu Apr 28 23:48:08 UTC 2005


On Thu, Apr 28, 2005, Ralph H. Stoos Jr. wrote:
> All,
> 
> Would it be possible to have the prefix "ubuntu-doc" be put on the 
> Subject line in mail notes to the list?  This would help me and I am 
> sure most everyone else quickly identify where the mail is from and also 
> organize it quickly.  I do get a bunch of mail (a lot of junk for the 
> most part).

As others have said, yes it's possible, but there are other ways to
filter, including a number of headers (To|Cc, List-Id, X-BeenThere).
Therefore I won't implement this at this stage, I'd need to see
additional arguments about why it's needed (common mail clients with bad
filtering etc).

-Mary




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