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On 16 May, David Mihm wrote:
> Bad idea, very bad idea!  When viewing mail in pine remotely from a
> server, the addition of [AfterStep] to the Subject will move the rest of
> the subject off the console!  It's bad enough when it comes to
> [linux-security] - that's just nuts!
> You folks need to use procmail and sort your mail, putting them in the
> appropriate mail "folders".
> Bad idea, Bad idea, Bad idea! :) 
> 
> On Sat, 16 May 1998, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> Not a bad idea....Also helpful if I were to sort messages by subject. 
>> All of this list's messages end up together.
>> 
>> Scott Stone wrote:
>> > 
>> > This list sometimes scares the !@#$ out of me, since many people post with
>> > titles like 'Installation Hell', etc.  In addition to being the head
>> > developer for TurboLinux, I also answer all the tech-support email from
>> > non-Japanese users, so when I see mail with titles like this, I think
>> > 'uh-oh, what did I screw up in the installer??' :)
>> > 
>> > Maybe we could have this list's majordomo daemon (or whatever it uses) add
>> > an [AfterStep] to the FRONT of all the subject lines on the list?  It
>> > would help me a lot, since I'm also on several other lists...

Procmail... definitely!  It works great!

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Chuck Mead
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