Re: google groups and Usenet

[Madhusudan Singh]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:24 pm, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  8-Sep-2005, Robert A. Macy wrote:
> | It would be easier to "sort" incoming emails if the emails
> | had a preface on their subject line, like...
> |
> | [octave] Re: google groups and Usenet
>
> The messages sent to the lists all have headers like
>
>   X-Mailing-List: <address@hidden>
>
> so it should be easy enough to refile/sort/etc. based on that.  If
> your mail reader can only sort on Subject:, then get a better mail
> reader...
>
> jwe
>
>
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Sorry for joining the thread late but a newsgroup is a much better interface 
than a mailing list. Much lower network traffic, especially with products 
with a large user base.

Though most mail readers can do threading, that is unnatural to use for a mail 
client (since email exchanges tend to be short in terms of number of 
exchanges, and date takes precedence over the topic).



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