Tuukka Tolvanen wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Fr?d?ric Crozat wrote: >>> Le dimanche 22 avril 2007 ? 10:39 -0400, James Knott a ?crit : >>> >>>> On other mail lists, there is usually a tag applied to the >>>> messages, to >>>> indicate the list. This has often kept me from deleting valid mail, >>>> that otherwise had a subject that might have appeared to be spam. >>>> These >>>> tags are enclosed in square brackets, something like [maemo-u] and my >>>> message, for example, would appear with the subject "[maemo-u] A >>>> suggestion". >>>> Any thoughts on this? >>>> >>> It has been removed some time ago, because it clutters subjects more >>> than anything. Any good mailer can filter mails from list correctly. >>> >> I prefer not to filter my mail on receipt. I read it from my inbox and > > Seamonkey / Thunderbird filters can add a tag, and you can display the > tags column next to the subject in the message list. Gmail displays > its tags in the subject space. The relevant information is present in > the messages, and the display is a user preference thing, so it's best > handled in the user agent. Note the above muas can't do away with > subject tags afaik at least ootb so the reverse setup wouldn't work > out to various preferences quite as well. > > 't. Yes, they can add tags, just as they could add labels before. However, this means I have to add the tag manually, after I've read the message. The purpose of the tag, is to identify list messages, so that I don't mistake some questionable subjects as spam, before I've read them. For an example, consider a message recently posted here, with the title "Navicore GPS software and US maps - when?". If I didn't know there was supposed to be a bluetooth GPS for the N800, I might suspect this was some spam attemping to sell some GPS software. Over the years, I have seen many message subjects that look like spam and the mail list tags keep me from deleting it as such. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
