If you put the tag at the end of the line, not the beginning, it doesn't break sorting - all the articles of a given thread stay together. One difference between what you do and what some other mailing lists do is that cypherpunks uses multiple list servers, and yours munges the Subject: lines while the others don't. Most mailing lists that label their traffic use just one server; if they're using multiple servers, they're administered identically, so you don't have a mixture of munged and undamaged topics. At 05:51 PM 9/19/00 -0500, you wrote:

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:

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I suppose you know why we don´t have that (the remailing issue). But I kinda have another idea. Just start every subject line with eg -C-P- like I did now, then it would be really easy to filter all the mail.

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Nitwit, this idea has been proposed many times. Choate even does this, unfortunately, to all traffic flowing through his node.

No, I don't do this. I do put a tag in the title for traffic analysis and easy visual identification. Despite your bitching about it, about 70% of the mailing lists I'm aware of do the same thing. The only distinction is they put []'s around it. I could put []'s if that'll make you happy. The 'CDR' itself stays. Very handy for quick visual scanning.

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