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Re: [Fwd: subject lines that mean something]

To: "Max Heim" <mvheim@studiolimage.com>, "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: subject lines that mean something]
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:36:19 -0400
I wasn't going to say a word

Larry

PS Thanks Max

>>>>On 10/12/99 5:31 PM so and so (Max Heim) said. (And I quote:)

>Actually, "mgs@autox.team.net" is in the "To" field. Even Windows NT 
>should be able to sort by the "To" field, no?
>
>If not, maybe you need to get a real OS... like Macintosh.
>
>: )
>
>Flame suit on, 
>Max (who really doesn't know the address of everyone on the list, but 
>manages to get by, anyway)
>
>
>Karl Shultz had this to say:
>
>>The problem with this idea is that it assumes that the user knows the
>>names of everyone on the list.  On two operating systems (NT Workstation
>>and Linux) I see no way to sort on the "Sender" field in the message
>>header, which should contain owner-mgs@autox.team.net.
>>
>>I guess I'll just put this to rest by changing to digest mode.  But it
>>wouldn't be *that* hard to append [MG] to each subject.
>>
>>--Karl
>>73 MG B
>>85 Integra GSR
>>
>>Wildbil923@aol.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 10/12/99 8:41:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>> mvheim@studiolimage.com writes:
>>> 
>>> << Most email programs will sort mail by the "From" and "To" fields, so 
it's
>>>  not too difficult to direct all the list mail to the same folder. For
>>>  example, my mail program is so old it's unsupported, yet it automatically
>>>  directs mail to 20 custom folders for different correspondents, subjects,
>>>  lists, etc. Not really necessary to clog the subject line with
>>>  meaningless characters... >>
>>> 
>>> Well, not all e-mail programs sort, and even if they did, a meaningless
>>> subject line in the MG folder is still a meaningless subject line and heads
>>> straight for the trash can with the limited time I have to devote to this.
>>> 
>>> Bill Wilkman
>>> with more British cars than time....
>>
>
>
>--
>
>===============================
>Max Heim
>mvheim@studiolimage.com
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Larry Macy
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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