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Re: Group in Subject: Header for News-by-Mail
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Thu, 13 Jun 2002 20:52:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Thomas Garrison writes:
> I suggest that there be an optional feature for those reading LUGNET by
> mail to have the name of the newsgroup appear in the Subject: line, in the
> usual fashion.  That is,
>  Subject: [lugnet.admin.suggestions] Re: Curator List
> so users could tell right away which mail in their inboxes was from LUGNET
> newsgroups.

but that would be mangling the messages...  which means when you reply to
that message, with it's [...], the subject will not be the same as it would
have been if you replied from the web interface or NNTP...

I guess we could set up an incoming mail filter on the server to remove all
the [lugnet.*] part in the subject, but that might be more effort than it's
worth...

comments?

Dan



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(...) I suppose I've never thought about actually using mail to *reply* to news. . .yes, it would look really ugly if a user did that, and yes, a user would do that. . . (...) And potentially it could do bad things (probably not, but things have a (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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I suggest that there be an optional feature for those reading LUGNET by mail to have the name of the newsgroup appear in the Subject: line, in the usual fashion. That is, Subject: [lugnet.admin.suggestions] Re: Curator List so users could tell right (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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