From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [GNU-Emacs] request: better subject lines Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:48 -0400 Message-ID: <8737cpizp7.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <874lx5dhwd.fsf@pippiandcarlos.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493572586 25213 195.159.176.226 (30 Apr 2017 17:16:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:16:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 19:16:19 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d4sSJ-0006O6-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:16:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4sSN-0003TY-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4sRw-0003TS-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4sRs-0002NN-Tq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.97]:61945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4sRs-0002NF-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be56d2.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.86.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id v3UHFmUe012509 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4870345865; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:15:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <874lx5dhwd.fsf@pippiandcarlos.com> (Carlos Konstanski's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:39:14 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.97 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112908 Archived-At: On Sun, Apr 30 2017, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > If you're like me, you get a whole lot of spam. You need to scan the > subject lines in your INBOX to decide what's spam and what's ham. If you > have to open an email to decide because the subject line is > inconclusive, that's bad. > > The subject lines for this mailing list need to have a [thing] injected > so that it's obvious that it is email for this list. Note my example in > the subject line of this email. Please? > > Sincerely, > > Carlos Konstanski A problem with [thing] is that it makes the subject line longer and may result in truncation. I would ask that if added it is *appended* not *prepended*. What I do is divide mail into groups. All mail from this list already contains a header line like List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor At least in gnus it is easy to divide mail by different List-Id's allan