[232] in Cypherpunks
Re: ADMIN: Handling of "tags"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hibbert)
Wed May 5 19:00:29 1993
To: Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Cc: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Cc: hibbert@memex.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9305050321.A8396-a100000@jupiter>
Date: Wed, 05 May 93 13:36:42 -0700
From: Chris Hibbert <hibbert@memex.com>
>> I'd love to see [...] every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended
>> to the subject [...]
>> I notice that a lot of people reply to messages without editing the
>> subject, and the subject gets "mangled" to "Re: ADMIN: ..." instead of
>> "ADMIN: Re: ..." Would it be possible to have the redistribution
>> software changed to [fix these?].
My mail reader (Xmh) allows me to sort incoming mail by any header field. I key
off the "to: cypherpunks" to put this mail in a different box. The information
you need is already in the header, and I would object to adding more noise to the
beginning of the subject field to obscure the real subject.
On the second point, I agree that the second is better, but my mail sorter is
smart enough to sort "Re: foo" with "foo", so again, no change is necessary. Is
there any chance you can get access to a more powerful mail reader, rather than
asking everyone to clutter up the headers with redundant info?
Chris
