Re: Subject Namimg Convention anyone?

Re: Subject Namimg Convention anyone?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Mark Elston wrote:
 > OK.  I'm starting to get annoyed with the SPAM starting to show up in
 > this newsgroup.  Since this is an unmoderated group could we all agree
 > to use a naming convention for posting to allow us to easily weed out
 > the wheat from the chaff?
 >
 > Perhaps something like [SRC] at the beginning of the Subject for
 > source postings and [DISC] for discussions/questions/etc?  That would
 > put relevant posts at the top of the list in most newsreaders and we
 > can easily select and delete all other posts.  Or we could filter out
 > all posts that don't begin with the agreed strings.

There is already a convention:

Subject: foo.el
Subject: foo.el 1.2
Subject: foo.el 1.2 --- Frobnicate oedipal ouvre, with font-lock support

Only sources are appropriate in gnu.emacs.sources; discussion belongs in
[Followup-To:] gnu.emacs.help.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Subject Namimg Convention anyone?

[Mark Elston]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in news:409FB039.6060301
@yahoo.com:

> Mark Elston wrote:
> > OK.  I'm starting to get annoyed with the SPAM starting to show up in
> > this newsgroup.  Since this is an unmoderated group could we all agree
> > to use a naming convention for posting to allow us to easily weed out
> > the wheat from the chaff?
> > ...
> 
> There is already a convention:
> 
> Subject: foo.el
> Subject: foo.el 1.2
> Subject: foo.el 1.2 --- Frobnicate oedipal ouvre, with font-lock support
> 

OK.  Yeah, I knew that but I was really looking for something a little 
more amenable to automation.  I suppose this is easy enough to recognize 
by sight but is a little harder to describe in a filter file (I use XNews).

Sorry for the original rant but when more than 50% of the messages in the
newsgroup are spam I get a little testy.

Mark