Ubuntu mail.?

[Alexandre Franke]

On 8/6/06, James Elliott <James.Elliott at etelecom.com.au> wrote:
> It would be helpful if there was a standard label included in the subject
> line of mail from Ubuntu users.
>
> For example, all mail from the Open Office Users list is prefixed with
> [users];  mail from the Perth Linux Users Group is prefixed with [plug];
> and so on
> It makes it so easy to identify list postings when they are mixed up with
> other e-mail.
>
> I am not sure how it works, but each member inserts his/her own subject
> line, for example:  Can someone help with a Calc question?
> and the e-mail system adds the label, so when it arrives it looks like this:
> [users] Can someone help with a Calc question?
>
> You can even use "Message Rules" in your e-mail client to sort all [user]
> mail into its own folder, which is handy.
>
> What do the rest of you think about this?

We already had a discussion about this once and there were two conclusions:

* As Peter already replied, the sorting of your mail should not be
based on the subject but on the To field (or List-id).
* Tags between brackets like [this] can be very helpful when they
really have a meaning. So when I post to the list, starting a thread
about some Gnome related issue, I could juste add [GNOME] in front of
it so that people would now if they are interested in this thread or
not.

Good:
* [GNOME] Fonts look ugly
* [NX] Problem with official (closed source) server

Still good but could be better (no [tag] but still an understandable subject):
* GDM won't start

Bad:
* Newbie question here! Please help!!!
* How come....
* Please unsubscribe me!!!!!

:-)
So this could be so much better when people would add a meaningful tag
at the beginning of their subject.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNU/Linux user #390077