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Eric M. Hopper hopper at omnifarious.org
Sun Nov 12 13:16:33 CST 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 10:47 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> I'm on about 15 mailing lists. While I can use the headers and procmail
> to shunt mercurial mail into a separate mailbox, the end result will be
> that I never read it. The problem with header-only information is that
> the email user agent cannot display it. In the absence of knowing what
> the mail is about (which is the whole point of a subject line) I cannot
> prioritize which mail to read when.

This seems to me like a problem for the MUA.  Perhaps you should poke
the evolution people and ask them for a feature that lets you see which
list a message is for in the message list display.  It might actually
already exist.

I would rather the MUA solve this problem than have the mailing list
prefix in the subject header since that would be a much more flexible
solution for all concerned.  I would hate to see how mailman or the MUA
tries to guess exactly which things can be removed from a subject line
in order to avoid having tons of repeats of the mailing list tag for
replies.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be properly armed.  -- Alexander Hamilton
-- Eric Hopper (hopper at omnifarious.org  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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