[linux-dvb] [ANNOUNCE] V4L, DVB and Maintainers Mailing Lists at vger.kernel.org

[Vanessa Ezekowitz]

On Thu January 8 2009 6:06:49 am Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> I just subscribed to this list and already received a first posting.
> Unfortunately this list doesn't mark postings' subjects with the
> list name, as in
> 
>   [linux-dvb] Merging V4L, DVB and Maintainers Mailing lists...
> 
> where I could immediately see whether this is a "normal" email
> or a list posting.

Check the "To" field.  In the case of your message, it shows "linux-dvb at linuxtv.org" on my end.  Set your mailer to match this address in any/all headers and you'll probably catch everything destined for this list.

I'm of the opinion that [linux-dvb] and similar really should be *stripped* from the subject line of mailing lists in general, since there are other ways to identify mailing lists (such as the "List-Id" header field, which is also valid for this list).  I've set Kmail to sort in a similar manner, with each list's messages going into their appropriate mail folders.

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