tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 05 10:04:02 1998
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Re: about the mailing list
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: about the mailing list
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:02:25 -0600 (CST)
Phill wrote:
: wouldn't it be possible to add a header to all the posts from the list?
: I am now in 3 email list. 2 of them have headers. This one doesn't and
: it makes it hard to see when scanning the e-mails if this is a
: personnal post or one from the mailing list.
: something like [tlhIngan Hol] in every subject line would make things
: a lot easyer.
: What do you guys think ?
Bad idea, though I sympathize. Between work and home, I'm on over two dozen
mailing and distribution lists myself. However, my emailer only displays the
first 20-odd letters of the Subject line in the summary listing of messages.
Adding such a tag wouldn't let me see the actual subjects of the message.
There are a couple of options you can do yourself:
1) Configure your email program to display or sort according to a different
header in the summary listing of that day's messages. Check your program's
documentation. Here are the headers attached to every post on this mailing
list already containing the string "tlhingan-hol" (your mailer is probably
set to suppress most of these):
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Originator: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
X-Comment: TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsub tlhingan-hol" to [email protected]
2) Tell the KLI listserv to send you the digest version of the list ("set
tlhingan-hol digest" I think is the command). You will then see something
like "TLHINGAN-HOL DIGEST No. ##/### [Date]" as the Subject line for that
day's digest. This is what I do with most of my lists.
BTW, if you're lurking or just not a frequent poster, I recommend getting
any mailing list as a digest if at all possible as it keeps your email from
filling up with too much clutter. Unfortunately, not all mailing lists are
available as digests. You can always re-set your options to get the posts
individually later once you feel the urge to start posting yourself.
Voragh