[GZG] Re: GZG List Code proposal.

I would like to agree to this as I subcribe to a number of mailing list and it
would be much better to know which ones belong to this list. I for one, know I
have deleted items from this list thinking that it was one of my other lists.

Well.... thats my two cents.

Simon

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> From: Andrew Martin <Al.Bri@xtra.co.nz>

> Mk. wrote:

> Query: maybe I ask this through naitivity about various mail programs,
Doesn't
> this make the 'GZG' entry in the subject header redundant?

No, not all mail programs are able to sort incoming messages from the "from"
address. My is able to, usually... except that some people seem to
use strange versions of the "to" address, or something - a few list
members (always the same ones - I'll try to remember to tell you who you
are the next time you post) fall between the sorting mechanisms.

Because of this, I'd very much like a [GZG] header. The other mailing lists
I'm on do this automatically (...OK, it *does* look a bit strange with
[Chipco] Re: [Chipco] Re: etc, but most of the time it doesn't go
that far <g>), which is a great help - because people do forget. Jon
(W.), can the FT list server do the same thing? That leaves only the specific
headers to us (and our faulty memories)...

Later,

Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> No, not all mail programs are able to sort incoming messages from the

I get some of the mail with the from fields really strange. I think Indy is
one of these. The mails I get from him and a few
others seem to have wierd-*ss phrases in them... which is a trick I'd
very much like to learn myself. Maybe its real obvious to most how this is
done, but I'd always assumed the list server required a valid (format wise)
email address in the from field.

> Because of this, I'd very much like a [GZG] header. The other mailing

Whereas I'd beg to differ. Some of our threads go on add naseum and I've
noticed on lists like the ones you are referencing, you end up with subject
lines like
[GZG] Re: [GZG] Re: [GZG]: Re [GZG]: Re [GZG]: etc. so you can't even
find the stupid subject. Or maybe that's a client side problem, I don't know,
but either way it is frustrating. If we had the other
tags (SG, FT, DS, or OT - other topic in this case), you could sort
traffic with these 4 tags easily enough.

Why don't you just sort on reply address? anything that has a reply address of
bolton server, send to the GZG bin? My Pegasus mail client can do this I
think.

Tom.
> Later,
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> Thomas Barclay wrote:

> Why don't you just sort on reply address? anything that has a reply

Very simple. My mail handler can't do that :-(