Subject line?

[Ben Novack]

I use gmail myself. I simply tell it to make Ubuntu messages
auto-archived ("skip the inbox"), and they never show up in my inbox;
I then just click the Ubuntu label in the left-side menu and the list
messages are the only things that appear.


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:51:36 +0100, Thomas Beckett
<thomas.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is being suggested because of GMail.
> 
> As a Gmail user myself the inbox gets full very quickly.
> Gmail does not use the idea of floders and instead is trialing the use
> of lebels. This is just as easy a way to distinguish messages, but
> they are all nevertheless held in the one inbox which make things very
> messy. The idea is that you use googles searches to search your mail
> for what you are looking for, but the whole system is not very nice
> for people who just want to browse their mail.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:43:28 -0500, Martin Maney <ubuntu at two14.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:53:13PM -0000, jeremy at fantasticfamily.net wrote:
> > > Does anyone else think that an [ubuntu] in the subject line would be cool?
> >
> > No.  There are already multiple header lines that unambiguously
> > identify the mailing list traffic.  Please don't misuse the subject
> > line for this purpose.
> >
> > Why is this notion cropping up on so many mailing lists in the last
> > month or two?  Is there some new (version of?) popular email tool that
> > doesn't deal with multiple folders into which mail is sorted on
> > delivery?
> >
> > --
> > One lesson I've learned from my years as Linux's hood ornament is that
> > there's something worse: some folks can't be content to just take things
> > too seriously on their own.  They're not happy unless they can convince
> > others to go along with their obsession.  -- Linus
> >
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> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >
> 
> 
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