Re: (meta) anyone in favor of...

[Marvin <physchem...>]

Outlook Express easily sorts mail from jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org into 
its own
folder. The tag isn't needed for Outlook Express users.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ari Davidow" <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: (meta) anyone in favor of...


> We had a discussion about that a while back. Turns out this software can
only put the whole list name in the tag, and if each message began
"[jewish-music]" a lot of people wouldn't have room to see that actual
subject.
>
> I'm trying to reach a point where I can go back to developing some new
tools independent of the list, and I certainly welcome any ideas and/or
help, but that's (the preceding paragraph) why we don't use that method on
this list at this time.
>
> ari
>
> >does anyone else think the jewish-music list should have a little tag on
> >every subject line? a lot of other mailing lists do. like if you send a
> >message with the subject "I like Jewish music," everyone gets it saying
> >"[jewish-music] I like Jewish music." (In replies, "Re:" comes before the
> >tag, so everything threads nicely in software that uses threads.) Now
that
> >I'm using a lot of public terminals (and not my home computer that has
> >filtering software) this would definitely come in handy for me, as well
as
> >a lot of other people, I believe.
> >
> >-yakov
> >
>
>
>
>

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