adding [markdown] to the email subject lines for markdown-discuss

[Seumas Mac Uilleachan]

Sam Joseph wrote:

> A. Pagaltzis wrote:

>

>> * Sam Joseph <srjoseph at hawaii.edu> [2006-07-08 03:50]:

>>  

>>

>>> I was wondering what people thought to the idea of getting

>>> "[markdown]" added to the subject lines of all the mails to the 

>>> markdown mailing list?

>>>   

>> From the headers of the mail you just posted:

>>  

>>

>> <snip>various mail headers </ship>

>>

>> What about that doesn’t suffice for you?

>>

> My mail tool (thunderbird) has a default search above the messages.  

> None of the default options "subject, sender, (subject & sender), 

> body" allow me to easily filter the markdown emails.

>

> Naturally I can open a search tool and do a search based on those 

> headers, but it's not as convenient.

>

> I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and tend to rely on 

> [mailing-list-name] appearing in the subject line to do my filtering.

>

> I find that if I set up a script to filter automatically to another 

> folder then I just end up not reading that mailing list.  At least 

> that's my habit.

>

> The [mailing-list-name] subject line addition is used in lots of 

> places.  Is there a reason that some people don't like it?  Subject 

> line gets too long?

>

> CHEERS> SAM

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My mail tool (Thunderbird) has no problem here. I simply filter on:

Match any of the following

 From    contains    markdown-discuss
To        contains    markdown-discuss

Move to ...

Haven't had a misdirected message yet.

HTH