At 3:47 PM -0500 2/19/03, Richard G. Ball is rumored to have typed:
Mostly because it is entirely unnecessary. All modern email clients that I know of let you filter your email into individual directories/folders.
The one I'm using now is six years old, and it allows for this filtering. Since this list is run via mailman (yeah, I know, the irony), the X-BeenThere: header field is probably the preferred, although any of the List-*: header fields would work as well. For SmartList mailing lists, the X-Loop: header field is preferred.
So, you can easily have a [smartlist] folder and a [photoshop] folder based on information in the headers that is already unique to that email list without adding extra text to the subject line (which I then have to strip off before I file my email).
Yeah, I have an entire rc.mailinglist file filled with nothing but recipies removing subject munges, removing footers, correcting list-added Reply-To: header fields which destroy the ability to properly reply to postings, etc., etc. NONE of this nonsense is necessary, IMHO, and the munges end up making it _more_ difficult for anyone willing to spend a few moments reading the documentation to their email client to properly manage their mail. Charlie Summers