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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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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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