26 Jun
2006
26 Jun
'06
10:03 a.m.
Computer litterate is not the question. ( have been designing
computers since the IBM 7070 in 1960) I have filters, yes, but I also
get a list of mail that I can scroll down without sorting the mail
first which to me is just an extra step that makes it harder. I like
scrolling doen the entire list of 300 post a day and clicking on the
ones I want to see then deleting the batch. Without an identifying
signature in the subject this is not possible and I am forced to use
"your" method of sorting into separate boxes then going to each box
and reading the mail there then going to the next box...etc....etc.
which I find tedious.
On 6/26/06, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
On 6/26/06,
Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 11:02, Richard Hadsell wrote:
> > I find it difficult to distinguish some cctalk messages from
> > spam. The From: could be anyone, and the Subject: is not always
> > technical enough to recognize. Could your mailer add '[cctalk]'
> > to every subject, if it is not already there? This would also
> > enable a filter to send the message to a cctalk folder. It's a
> > technique that I have seen with other e-mail lists, and I like
> > it.
>
> You can filter off of one of the mail headers, like for example:
>
> List-Id: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk.classiccmp.org>
>
> or perhaps this one:
>
> Return-path: <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org>
>
> or any of the other headers that have classiccmp.org in them...
>
> That has the added advantage of not cluttering up the subject line
> with extra garbage. :)
On Monday 26 June 2006 11:16, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
I dont consider "[cctalk]" to be
"extra garbage". This is not the
only list I have that doesent identify itself and it is frustrating
when you dont know which list sent it. MOST lists have an
identifying signature in the subject line!!!
But the point is that any half-way decent mail software of filtering
program can sort things based on other headers in the email, so why
bother eating up characters on the Subject line? At least on every
mail reader I've seen, there's a limited space for the subject line,
and being able to see 9 less characters "[cctalk] " of the subject can
be annoying. It's even worse on some lists I'm on that have a 15 or 16
character list name. which takes up 1/2 of the available subject line,
or more..
I'd hope that the people on this list are "computer literate" enough to
figure out how to configure their mail program to sort email by headers
(or use a paper or online manual to figure out how to do so). Of
course, if you don't use something that'll let you sort mail (eg,
procmail on UNIX/Linux or a decent mail reader on other platforms)
intelligently, that's another problem entirely.
Grumpy Pat
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