Hi all,
I have been using Linux for more than 3 years now, and joined this mailing list around 2 weeks back. I have a small suggestion.
Can we remove the [ILUG-BOM] prefix in the subject of all mails in the list as it reduces readability in the index of messages. Is there any specific reason why it exists? It would be cool if someone could point that out.
To make my point clear, checkout the two screenshots of my mailer (taken on ilug-bom and the mutt-users mailing list)
1. ilug-bom linuxers: http://www.execve.net/showcase/ilug-bom.png 2. mutt-users: http://www.execve.net/showcase/mutt-users.png
As you all can clearly see, it not only reduces readability, but also hurts the eyes (as a matter of speaking).
Thoughts/Comments?
Cheers, Gautam
On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:29 pm, Gautam Mani wrote:
Hi all,
As you all can clearly see, it not only reduces readability, but also hurts the eyes (as a matter of speaking).
I think it helps to sort out mails for some clients, if people use a single email account for all their mails then they easily distinguish between the personal mails (I consider them more important than mailing lists since there are only a few of them in the entire day) and mailing list mails. Most of the people will agree with me on this I hope. Why dont you try to get mails from the mutt-users and the ILUG_BOM at the same time, along with a few other mailing lists as well in the same account (the picture you have shown has mails from only one list at any instant.). Then the ILUG_BOM becomes very important. I hope you also agree with me.
Thoughts/Comments?
Cheers, Gautam
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:01:26AM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote:
I think it helps to sort out mails for some clients, if people use a single email account for all their mails then they easily distinguish between the personal mails (I consider them more important than mailing lists since there are only a few of them in the entire day) and mailing list mails. Most of the people will agree with me on this I hope.
Okay, I see what you are getting at. I use procmail to filter my email (especially mailing lists, since they are low priority) and let my personal mail drop into my inbox. So I don't have this problem.
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I hope you also agree with me.
Unfortunately I really don't see the light, since I think mail should be segregated; but of course that is upto personal taste/usage and traffic. If the "powers that are" feel this way; theres nothing much I can do except cook up with a procmail recipe which will strip out the ugly prefix ;).
As the wise men say (more true in Open Source): If you have an itch, scratch it!
Cheers, Gautam
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:15:57AM +0530, Gautam Mani wrote:
As the wise men say (more true in Open Source): If you have an itch, scratch it!
Finally got down to fixing the itch ;).
Check out the results at: http://www.execve.net/showcase/ilug-bom-kewl.png
For those who are interested, here is the procmail recipie (picked it up from the net):
# Super-cool recipie begins here... :0 * ^Subject:.* [ILUG-BOM { # strip off '[ILUG-BOM] ' from subject :0 hw SUBJECT_=|formail -xSubject: | sed -e 's/[ILUG-BOM] //'
:0 fhw | formail -I "Subject:$SUBJECT_" } # Super-cool recipie ends here...
And if you noticed the screenshot, I fixed all the previous unread mails as well. Just tagged them all in mutt, bounced them to myself and deleted the original messages =:-).
Cheers, Gautam
PS. Standard disclaimers apply to the recipie ;)
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