--- Changing subject lines / Eugenio Gatto. - Torino, 1996-06-22 "I think it would be great to have it as an option to turn off or on. My mail program sorts by: Subject, sender,size, time, date Thats about it. If I have mail coming in from three lists from folks all over without a similar item in common ..." ["Kathy in Pa. USA" <[log in to unmask]>, LSTOWN-L, 1996-06-21] Nothing against the possibility of adding a short identifier in front of the subject: list name may well be thougth as a "super-topic"; but the feature should be configurable at the user level (SET command), since it is redundant or otherwise unuseful for many. Probably users begin to feel this as a problem when they realize that 'sorting' has to be taken in the broad sense of 'automatic delivering to different folders': this means organization, and some form of (minimal) programming to accomodate personal habits. It can't be done with over-simple mail software, but it would be incorrect to force a general solution. The best thing to suggest, to users who cannot afford jumping to this level, is switching to DIGEST (nobody would manage, say, 200 paper letters a day without clerical aid). In any case, LISTERV cannot be blamed because of lack of a "similar item in common", since SENDER is such (not to be confused with FROM), with TO, RETURN-PATH (envelope FROM), and on many lists REPLY-TO. But, sure, I know that much software actively misuse or simply discard those fields, little used and understood in personal mail management ... I miei saluti. <-- Eugenio Gatto <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>