[Elecraft] A heartfelt plea (Actually two)

[iain macdonnell - N6ML]

Scott,

There is (was?) a convention of including the a product tag in the
subject of product-specific posts - e.g. "[K3] What the heck is a
"sync board"?"" - so that those who do not own / have no interest in
that product can filter those messages into a black-hole. See item 4b
at:

http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm

73,

    ~iain / N6ML



On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Scott Simpson <sasimpson at gmail.com> wrote:
> so i did some looking through the headers, you want to look for this:
>
> List-Id: Elecraft Discussion List <elecraft.mailman.qth.net>
>
> it appears in both digest and regular list emails, so if you filter
> where List-ID contains elecraft.mailman.qth.net, you should be fine.
>
>
> scott
> sasimpson at gmail.com
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Kevin Luxford <elelist984 at elitemail.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> 1.    There is some considerable slippage from the standard of including
>> the Elecraft product in the subject field.  Makes it very hard for those
>> who have filters set up to move mail into appropriate folders.
>>
>> 2.     The other problem has to do with those who use a digest reference
>> as their subject header.
>> This is absolutely meaningless for those of us who get the downloads as
>> they occur.  I am not going to waste my time opening your email to see what
>> it is about if you do not have the good manners to tell us in the subject
>> heading.  The fate of such emails is the delete button.
>> I am already deleting many emails which have just a one or three word
>> comment plus all the overhead associated with unnecessarily included other
>> email texts and the obligatory stuff from The Elecraft Mailing List.  I
>> just do not have unlimited disk storage.
>>
>> 73
>> Kevin
>> VK3DAP / ZL2DAP
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