samba - Jul 2002 - Fw: [GEN]A Suggestion

Hello all.

I belong to a few mailing lists as I'm in the process of learning and
installing a few Linux based applications. My personal opinion is this is the
best of them, mainly because of the amount of people who are subscribed. I guess
I get in the region of 400 e-mails a day from samba@samba.org.
 
The problem for me is the amount of mail I receive when I'm busy. I have to
go through tons of the stuff untill I get to ones I can help with.  Maybe the
mailing list team could have set subjects or words that would denote specific
field of samba, lets say one for windows XP, and any questions about this would
have [XP] in the front of the subject, or say [GEN] for the more general
problems and so on.  This way I could use my mail rules to get quick access to
the questions I can answer when time doesn't allow browsing.

What do you guys and girls think?
 
Cheers ,Trevor.        
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--On Monday, July 22, 2002 12:38 PM +0200 Trevor Fraser 
<trevor@systematic.co.za> wrote:
> Maybe the mailing list team could have set subjects or words that would
> denote specific field of samba, lets say one for windows XP, and any
> questions about this would have [XP] in the front of the subject, or say
> [GEN] for the more general problems and so on.  This way I could use my
> mail rules to get quick access to the questions I can answer when time
> doesn't allow browsing.
> What do you guys and girls think?
Did you forward this to the list again, or is the listbot repeating 
messages again? I can?t remember if I replied to this last time or not; my 
apologies if I did (I?m getting forgetful in my young age).

An "interesting? idea, Trevor, but with absolutely no way to enforce it. 
(Unless you would care to moderate the list, and add such fields to each 
and every message, prior to sending it to the rest of us... I?d sure 
appreciate it).

I for one will be happy when people consistently send messages that have 
descriptive subject lines, let alone having people follow some impossible 
format!

- john