Subject mangling

Scott Woodall scott.woodall at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 14:54:30 EST 2004


I prefer it to be on.


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:49:11 -0500, Michael Schultheiss
<schultmc at cinlug.org> wrote:
> Originally, this list was setup with subject mangling enabled (i.e.
> [CINLUG] was prepended to the subject).  I received a complaint and
> turned off the subject mangling.  I've received another complaint asking
> for it to be turned back on (to allow easy visual identification of list
> mail).  Rather than continue to flip the mangling on and off, I'd like
> to gauge the preferences of the list recipients.
> 
> With or without subject mangling, you can filter on the List-Id header.
> Filtering is possible in most mail delivery agents.
> 
> One con of having subject mangling enabled is that useful information in
> the subject can often time be pushed off the screen (for example, a
> subject like FW: RE: Re: [CINLUG] Re: Subject mangling).
>


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