4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
12:46 p.m.
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
I would like to propose [again] that we ... insert a
tag [cctalk] in the
Subject: line of the postings
There's another angle to this: crossposting. Say we put [cctalk] in front of
cctalk messages, and [cctech] in front of cctech messages. A cctalk
subscriber posts a message. It gets automagically crossposted to cctech,
with a [cctech] header going out. Someone on cctech replies. It gets
automagically crossposted to cctalk. Mailman doesn't know to strip off the
[cctech] from cctalk crossposts. Congratulations, the subject now contains a
[cctalk][cctech] double tag. Example:
|Re: [cctalk] [cctech] Fwd: Re: Available in Milwau|
There are workarounds, of course, but they detract from the original purpose
of [listname] tags or require yet another filter in the mail pipeline.
--
Jeffrey Sharp