Re: Taming the mailing lists?

["William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 earthlink net>]

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell said:
[snip]
> 1) Add a mailing list tag to the subject [FC], because the majority of
> new posters have no clue about threaded mail readers, procmail filters
> and large volume mail management.

Seems to me it would make more sense to help them learn about these
things, not clutter up the subject.

> 2) Shorten the quoted name of the list in the reply to and from
[snip]
> Is just too long and today adding the list to an address book is now
> partly crippled.  No wonder folks hijack threads.

Funny, my address book lets me put what ever name in I want for addresses...

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William Hooper