Re: Mail identification

[Karl Andrews <kandrews@PTDCS2.INTEL.COM>]

*Lojban*

As a newbie who has been here less than a week, I find that I tend to
agree with Frank <Frank.Mayer@darmstadt.netsurf.de> that some systematic
method of identifying mail from the list would be helpful.

Bob <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET> mentioned that he filtered on the basis of
the FROM line in the header. That solution does not work for me, as his
was the only message I've received that had anything identifying lojban
in the FROM line. I found that the SENDER line has the listserver
identifier, but I don't normally see that line as I have my reader
(Netscape) set for abbreviated headers. I suppose the solution in my
case is to buckle down and learn how to use procmail to presort my
incoming mail, but for the non-UNIX users this probably is not an
alternative.

As a temporary palliative, we could preface our messages with something
like the initial line I have used. At least this would immediately
identify the message and allow one to toss it into a lojban folder
without having to read several paragraphs. This would allow me, at
least, to keep working without losing my train of thought, and to read
my lojban mail during lunch or at other slow periods. (Of course, as the
group becomes more fluent and writes in lojban rather than english, a
quick glance at the text will be sufficient)

I'm sure this group has discussed the alternative of creating a
newsgroup as opposed to having listserved mail. Since I could not find
such a group, I assume the problem was that people could become isolated
because their news server might not carry the group.

- Karl
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