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Re: BC-LINUX: Subject line headers on list traffic

Ted Powell (ted@eslvcr.fireplug.net)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:48:40 -0800

On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 12:26:35PM -0800, Toomas Losin wrote:
> Dave Michelson writes:
> > Several people have told me that they find it difficult to separate
> > list traffic from other personal e-mail.
> > One solution is to preface the subject line in list messages with the
> > words "BC-LINUX: ".
> > [...]

> [...] So including a token in the subject line is
> at best a kludge that helps people on a few low-volume lists, while
> taking away from available subject space for those with real mail
> clients.

Some real mail clients, for example Elm and Mutt, do not have a fixed-
length subject space, but allow it to go all the way to the right hand
edge of the window. Starting one of these mailers in a 90-column window
instead of 80 (or 142 instead of 132, etc) regains the "lost" space. The
additional window width should not be a problem for people with real
screens. :-)

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