Re: [HWG Critique] email subjects

Kae, quoted:
>I think it's evident from the other replies on the list that "advanced" 
>filter usage is not the solution - it should be clear before opening an 
>email where the email came from.

Why do you think To: and From: headers don't do this already?
If you're using Outlook, and you don't want to learn how to use your 
filters, you can add the to: column to your message preview pane (right 
click on a column header, choose "add column") and bingo, you know without 
opening a message where the email came from. You can even squish that 
column width to take up less space than "[HWG Critique]" and still 
determine which list the message belongs to.

My biggest objection to your request is that I hate long subject lines. My 
web-based mail client would cut off the USEFUL part of the subject line, 
and my laptop's screen resolution doesn't let me extend the subject field 
but so far.  Maybe the list owner can pick a shorter tag than [HWG Critique].

Anyway, your suggestion, which affects us all (and six 'me too's isn't a 
majority), would be an imposition on me and the list manager, while my 
suggestion helps you learn to use your mail client more productively. Both 
would solve your problem, but mine will *also* solve your problem with any 
other list you belong to or class of mail you receive.  I understand that 
you'd have to invest a few minutes into setting up filters and/or arranging 
the layout of your mail client, but afterwards you'll wonder what you ever 
did without them.

If anyone on this list needs help configuring their mail clients, please 
feel free to write me with your problem and I will gladly, gladly help. 
I've got several years' experience in desktop & network support and 
administration with several applications in Linux, Mac, and Windows 
operating systems.

Collette

At 10:12 PM 9/22/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Collette McNeill wrote:
>>Hi Kae,
>>I simply set a filter in Eudora to flag *all* messages from hwg.org and 
>>color-code them pink. That way I neither have to bother the list owner, 
>>nor look twice at my spam/virus-checker. Furthermore, I can sort messages 
>>by category and read all my hwg mail at once.
>>Maybe you can do something similar in your mail client to solve your problem.
>
>true. I could have done this - but that would not solve the problem from 
>all other people as well. I think it's evident from the other replies on 
>the list that "advanced" filter usage is not the solution - it should be 
>clear before opening an email where the email came from.
>
>Kae

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