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Re: Removing pesky Subject line tags

1997-08-07 06:06:00
At 12:39 AM 8/7/97 -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:

| Several of the mailing lists I receive have started adding those pesky
| [LISTNAME] or {listname} tags to their Subject lines.

No kidding.  They're nuisance wastes of space on the index screen of my
incoming mail, shoving the real subject out of view.  Some of you may feel
less strongly, but if you're on this mailing list, you have better ways of
identifying mail that came through a list and don't need the tags.

From the LISTSERV online documentation:
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html#2.13

The new SUBJECTHDR (minimum abbreviation: SUBJ) header option is provided
for users who want to see a "tag" in the subject line of their incoming
list mail that indicates where the mail is coming from (e.g., to activate a
filter in their mail program to drop the message into a specified
notebook). SUBJECTHDR is slightly different from the other header options,
as it simply adds to the existing header definition--for instance, if the
user is already set to DUALHDR, a SET listname SUBJ command leaves DUALHDR
in effect and just adds the tag to the subject line. To turn off the
subject tags, the user simply sets another header option, which
automatically turns the SUBJECTHDR option off.


In other words, if you don't like it, turn it off. 
(I acknowledge that this doesn't help sysadmins who have to deal with
subordinate subscribers)

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