-----Original Message----- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:moseley@hank.org]
For me that's three simple things:
1) A good descriptive subject. I quickly delete any message where the subject doesn't tell me what's going on. I rarely look at "please help" or "newbie" subjects. Nothing against beginners (that's me), I just don't want to spend the time reading the post to find out the real subject.
Yep, I think that's the consensus. People on this list are pretty good about supplying good subjects. I've been following the FreeBSD-questions list for a few weeks and I cannot begin to tell you how many people have been putting "help!" or "question" as a subject.
2) I'm a big fan of posting replies after the quoted material, and with the quoted material stripped WAY down. If I open a message and see only quoted material in my window then it's deleted with scrolling.
Same here.
AND, one other thing. Does anyone really find the [SLE] placed in the subject helpful? Don't most (all) mail clients allow you filter on other headers?
I like it for visual filtering. At home I only subscribe to a couple of lists at the moment so I'm just reading everything without filtering. Greg Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
AND, one other thing. Does anyone really find the [SLE] placed in the subject helpful? Don't most (all) mail clients allow you filter on other headers?
I like it for visual filtering. At home I only subscribe to a couple of lists at the moment so I'm just reading everything without filtering.
yes, while i do properly filter with procmail, i also have a little script that fetchmails my mail, and then snatches all the subject lines out of the procmail log and dumps them to me, so i can see the subjects of all the emails i just snarfed. It is a great benefit to me, if im in a hurry, to see that fetchmail just downloaded 22 emails, and be able to quickly notice that all 22 of them have [SLE] in the subjects and know that nothing work related is in that batch so i can continue working. (hmm, that *almost* looks like a proper sentance..heh) anyway... yes, i know how to use procmail, and the [SLE] still serves a good, important function for me. -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Product Development www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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