mailing list management
Casey Harkins
caseyharkins at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 19:11:40 CEST 2007
hank williams wrote:
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> I think that this is not useful at all.
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> Actually it would be quite useful.
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> Without such a header I am unable to *visually* distinguish between this
> and other mailing lists or mail. Filters are useful for organizing, but
> I personally prefer to see my whole inbox and to view and scan all
> inbound content. Not having such a header is the equivalent of not
> having a "from" column in my mailing lists.
>
> Most mailing lists do this properly.
Munging the subject line is a bad idea.
http://www.l33tskillz.org/writing/tagging-harmful/
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> Of course the other thing I always complain about is that this is the
> only mailing list I am on (out of >10) for which (at least in gmail)
> replies to a thread go to the individual and not the list unless I say
> "reply to all" - which I often forget because this list is the oddball.
> There have been discussions about this before where others have said it
> shouldnt work the way I suggest or that gmail is broken, but the bottom
> line is that of all the mailing lists I am on, gmail (for me) gets it
> right on everything but this one.
Munging the reply-to is a bad idea.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
-casey
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