Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:51:52 -0700 From: "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions] Message-ID: <a969fbd10704251351t36e0b1aeh3dd4afec3c25bb2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com> References: <294439d20704250627h60a5b5dcx49f4dd6b34c2caa1@mail.gmail.com> <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com>
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I dont think subject tagging is poor at all. whats poor is overly long poorly organized subject lines..but hey..[FBSDQ] aint all that long. On 4/25/07, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > > I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to > > visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it > > possible to add a tag in the subject line, something like, [fbsd-q], > > or [fbsd-questions], or similar so that emails can be visually > > classified? > > > > Given that these lists have been around for a long time, was there a > > discussion on this? If the idea of tagging was dropped, can someone > > inform me about the rationale behind this decision? Thanks in advance! > > All messages are already tagged with a List-ID > > e.g. > > List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> > > Can gmail not filter on that? > > Visual tagging of subject lines is a poor solution. Either you tag at > the front > > "[fbsd-questions] Really long subject line that gets truncated even > earlier thanks to the tag" > > or at the end > > "Really long subject line where the tag disappears in a haze of ... > [fbsd-questions]" > > Neither of which is satisfactory, and for most people with sensible > email environments that can filter of Header lines, an unnecessary > inconvenience. > > Not to mention the question of how on earth you co-ordinate unique tags > across mailing lists. Since the List-ID isn't constrained by length it > can contain the email address of the list, which is already unique. > > If you can't filter on the List-ID then filter on To and Cc lines which > contain questions@freebsd.org or freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Not as > good, but it would do. > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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