list subject options

[Julian Field]

On 24 May 2006, at 00:06, Michael Mansour wrote:

>> List Managers,
>>
>> I stared hard at my mailscanner-beta options on your Mailman webpage,
>> thinking that I could modify my Subject line for the list to be
>> like:
>>
>> Subject: [MS-beta] whatever...
>>
>> I checked the administrative interface of my own Mailman setup
>> (v2.1.8) and realized that subject_prefix setting seems to be an
>> admin-only thing.  Hmmm...  I would like to be able to tell the
>> difference between mailscanner and mailscanner-beta list postings in
>> the subject line.
>
> I guess I second Jeff's request here. Mailman supports it and on  
> all the lists
> I run I use that feature. In my situation, I have a dedicated email  
> account
> which receives mailing lists, most mailing lists prefix the subject  
> while
> others don't.
>
> The ones that don't are annoying (but the list maangers won't  
> change it aka
> Red Hat), but prefixing the subject line is done by others and it  
> makes it
> easier for users to filter them out into folders etc.

I don't understand why people think they can only filter on the  
subject line? Surely you keep your list mail in separate mailboxes? I  
hate to think what I would do if it all landed  in my Inbox!
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