OpenEuphoria

Re: informative "subject" titles (was: explain it to me)

• Posted by brian_keene at yahoo.com Sep 01, 2001
• 433 views

Dan:
I agree that it is 1) circuitous, 2) can be a hassle, and 3) does loose
some info.  But I was just giving a solution to your problem.  I never
said it was the best solution.

Your hint is obviously the best solution.  I would like to make my own
hint/suggestion though.  In another group that I'm in, every subject
line has the name of the forum automatically prepended to it.  It would
be nice to have that happen with this group.  Maybe have a "[EU]"
string prepended.  That would allow us to automatically filter all
EUForum messages into a separate folder (& also allow me to stop my
circuitous, time consuming, double sending practice).

Regards
Brian Keene

--- Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> That's an interesting, albeit circuitous, workaround, especially the
> "auto-trash if not self-sent" feature!  I think I tried something
> similar,
> by forwarding "non-topical subject-header emails" back to myself,
> with a
> more useful subject line, but it became too much of a hassle, and it
> removed
> the original *sender* from the "from", which can also sometimes be
> useful to
> search on.
> 
> <hint mode on>
> Wouldn't it be nice for just about everyone here if everyone wrote
> subjects
> for their forum postings which explained the *content* of their
> posting?
> <hint mode off>
> 
> Dan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <brian_keene at yahoo.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:33 AM
> Subject: Re: explain it to me
> 
> 
> > Dan:
> > I find that the inconsistant subject lines are more commn than on
> topic
> > subject lines.  So what I've done is set up a 2nd E-mail account on
> > yahoo that no 1 knows about except me.  When I want to save
> something I
> > just fwd the message with an appropriate title to that E-mail acct.
> &
> > then download that into a similar special folder (like the 1 you
> > described).  Anything that wasn't sent by me is automatically
> trashed
> > by Yahoo.
> >
> > Regards
> > Brian Keene
> >
> > --- Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > George,
> > >
> > > I almost never remember all the good stuff people put here, so I
> made
> > > a
> > > email folder "code examples" that I copy the best of the best to,
> for
> > > future
> > > reference.  Only problem is when people write email subjects like
> > > "explain
> > > it to me", instead of something which includes the *nature* of
> the
> > > desired
> > > help,  which throws off my ability to easily browse through that
> > > folder by
> > > subjects to retrieve something of interest ;)
> > >
> > > Dan Moyer
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:24 PM
> > > Subject: Re: explain it to me
> > >
> > >
> > > > now if I can just remember this stuff....
> > > >
> > > > ...george
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> > > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:07 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: explain it to me
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Clever stuff, Chris! Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > -ck
> > > > >
> > > > > > I do this..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rec=value(rec)
> > > > > > rec={rec[2]}
> > > > > >
> > > > > > this also works....
> > > > > > rec=rec[2..2]
> > > > > > then there is no need for an object variable..
> > > > >
> 
> 
> 
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