OpenEuphoria

Re: Protocol needed

• Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at ATT.NET> Oct 15, 2000
• 707 views

Am I correct in thinking this might be fixed by moving the tags to the *end* of
the subject line? Seems like that would also eliminate the multiple tags ("[GEN]
re: [GEN] rest of subject").

simulat wrote:

> Hi
> I like the category tags at the beginning of messages, but unless they are
> handled consistently they will make it so that my email reader (Outlook
> Express) won't be able to gather the postings into threads. In the long run
> this will be a real hassle.
>
> Here's what I mean - after sorting by subject I'm starting to get stuff like
> this:
> [GEN] foo
> [GEN] Re: Foo  --- one chunk of the thread
> [GEN] Re: Foo
> [GEN] Re: Foo
> [LNX] .. ... .. --- other stuff
>  .
>  .
> Re: foo -- another chunk of the thread
> Re: foo
> Re: foo
> Re: foo
>  .
>  .
> Re: [GEN] foo -- another chunk of the thread
> Re: [GEN] foo
> Re: [GEN] foo
> Threads get sorted into several places and it gets so you can't follow them
> chronologically anymore.
>
> Who wants to set the standard?
> Bye
> Martin