Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/10/17/15:23:17
Hi,
I'm fully with Chris on this one. Cluttering the subject line is, well,
abhorrent. Those that point to existing lists where this is done should
already know why it's bad. For one thing, different mailers put their "Re:
" in different places w.r.t. a [listNameTag], resulting in a divergence of
subjects and the loss of the ability to thread messages by topic. The
amount of subject line visible in the mailbox / summary windows is reduced.
If you sort mail into different mailboxes, such tags becomes virtually 100%
redundant (and hence carry no information at all--they just take up space).
Outlook is not the only mail agent for Windows. Personally, I'm very fond
of Eudora. It's filtering is capable of manipulating more than just the
folder into which filtered mail is placed. It can change the priority, the
color, etc. It will optionally generate a report about what actions were
triggered by filters and can open the folders that received new mail.
I've never had the slightest trouble keeping track of my mail from a large
number of high-volume lists using Eudora's filters, but I could hardly deal
with being on all the lists I'm on without that ability.
Let's keep this horrendous practice (as well as the other abhorrent
practice of inserting Reply-To: headers) out of the Cygwin list.
Randall Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA
At 11:58 AM 10/17/2000 , you wrote:
>Well, from the fact that I'm using cygwin, one might guess that I'm trapped
>at a Windows desktop running Outlook. I don't filter (nor do I want to
>filter) any of my email. It all comes to my Inbox and I read it there.
>When I'm done with it I move it to another folder, either Deleted Items (if
>I want to pitch it) or to some other randomly selected folder if I want to
>save it. I can imagine that Outlook might have some feature that would
>allow to automatically parcel my email out to various folders, but then I'd
>have to 1) notice that some other folder had new mail in it and 2) switch to
>that folder. Ugh!
>
>The "To" column in my Inbox is wide enough to show the first recipient (or
>maybe two if they're really short), but I can't see the whole recipient
>list. Since I'm not filtering anything, just knowing that "cygwin" is
>somewhere in the To: list doesn't help. I don't even see the Cc: list at
all.
>
>Other email groups I subscribe to do put some marker in the subject line so
>that I can easily distinguish emails with a quick glance at the subject.
>But since some find that abhorent, maybe just floating cygwin to the front
>of the To: list would be sufficient to serve my purposes without making
>things any uglier for others.
>
>In any case, it was just a suggestion...
>
>-- John Wiersba
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