also sprach Gerhard Sittig (on Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:09:58PM +0100):
Regarding the "marking the list articles with a prefix in the subject" -- there are already nine(!) other pointers in the message header (plus the two in the footer) to recognize that the message belongs to the list. If that's not redundancy, what else is?
i use mutt, and none of these but the subject prefix shows up in the message index. of course, once i am reading a message the origin is obvious from trailer, headers, recipient address and the like, but in the mutt index, this isn't obvious and that's when subject prefixes are handy. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "and no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, and so i throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky" -- pink floyd, 1971