no [infra] prefix on infra mailing list emails

Mike Burns mburns at redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 15:25:21 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 08:12 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 05:40 AM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> 
> > Some mail clients will allow better presentation filtering based
> > on $SUBJECT.
> 
> That's interesting, I thought people were perhaps using them for
> visual filter ("I see that is part of this list by the subject line"),
> but I didn't know you could get a different presentation filtering. So
> this would be different than moving it to a folder? Is it something
> automatic?

It's a mailman setting

> 
> (I usually use reliable headers, such as x-been-there, for filtering
> mailing lists, since subject lines are inconsistent. Also, I tend to
> avoid [Listname] in the subject because it's always a prefix, which
> shortens how much of the actual subject is visible in the mail client.)

I usually use List-id header to filter.  There is benefit both ways as
mentioned here.  I don't have an overly strong opinion either way.

Mike

> 
> - Karsten
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