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Re: Group in Subject: Header for News-by-Mail
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:29:38 GMT
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Dan Boger wrote:
> 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 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. . .
> 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...
And potentially it could do bad things (probably not, but things have a
way of breaking. . .)
What about (optionally) munging the From: header? Wasn't there some
discussion of this with respect to the robotics list? I can't remember
how that works now.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
Remove capital letters in address for direct reply.
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