ADMIN/OFF: What's happened?
Keith Henderson
henderson.120 at OSU.EDU
Sat Mar 20 14:41:42 EST 1999
Hi Folks....
Uhhhh, one weird question.
Back in the pre-listserv days, I used to receive messages from boc-l in my
in-box under the true senders name (or sometimes full e-mail address). When
we moved over to listserv, suddenly everything was listed under
'BOC/Hawkwind Discussion Group' (or something similar), although as my
Eudora downloaded the messages, I could see the names of you all flashing
before me as the true senders. Now, since the 'Train kept a rollin'
bombshell, now I'm getting everything listed by name again. Although, for a
day or two, I got a mix of 'BOC/Hawkwind' and individuals' names. But
today, everything is by name. Is that something with my
system/configuration only, or is that happening to everyone?
I don't really care too much one way or the other, and I was just kinda
wondering why. But one thing I really didn't like about the generic
'BOC/Hawkwind' titles is that sometimes I would be looking for a particular
person's posting to respond to, and if it was a high-volume thread, I'd have
to search around for quite awhile.
But then it was also nice to have the boc-l indicator there to distinguish
these from the other mailing lists I'm on.
My favourite way is for the true sender to be given, but then also a little
'tag' in front of the subject name. That's the way isi (the krautrock list)
is done; i.e., there's a little [isi] tag put before the subject.
So if we're going to have the names given again now, could we have a little
[boc-l] subject tag put on all of our postings?
Just wondering here in my ignorance....
Keith H. (FAA)
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