ADMIN: Handling of "tags"
Just a suggestion about the implimentation of the "redistributer" program that runs this list. I noticed a goodly number of people are using "tags" like the "ADMIN:" tag in my subject... I think this is good. I'd love to see it go one step further, and have every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended to the subject, so that I can read this more important mail first. Also, I notice that a lot of people reply to messages without editing the subject, and the subject gets "mangled" to "Re: ADMIN: ..." instead of "ADMIN: Re: ..." Would it be possible to have the redistribution software changed to do the first and correct the second? Are these changes worth it to anyone besides myself? --- Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger
# ... and have every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended # to the subject, ... I do this on two digests that I edit, and I have one realtime reflector that automatically inserts a tag into the Subject: line. The problem is when something gets nandoed into more than one mailing list, the tags take up the whole subject line. But it seems worth the bother. strick
I'd love to see [...] every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended to the subject [...]
I notice that a lot of people reply to messages without editing the subject, and the subject gets "mangled" to "Re: ADMIN: ..." instead of "ADMIN: Re: ..." Would it be possible to have the redistribution software changed to [fix these?].
My mail reader (Xmh) allows me to sort incoming mail by any header field. I key off the "to: cypherpunks" to put this mail in a different box. The information you need is already in the header, and I would object to adding more noise to the beginning of the subject field to obscure the real subject. On the second point, I agree that the second is better, but my mail sorter is smart enough to sort "Re: foo" with "foo", so again, no change is necessary. Is there any chance you can get access to a more powerful mail reader, rather than asking everyone to clutter up the headers with redundant info? Chris
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Chris Hibbert -
henry strickland -
Nickey MacDonald