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from: Mike O`Connor
date: 2005-01-28 02:26:48
subject: Re: A suggestion to os2hw moderator was Re: Printers & ink

Paul Smedley wrote:

>Hi Davey,
>
>Davey Brain wrote:
>  
>
>> 
>
>>Most of the Yahoo groups are set-up to have 
>>the group name in the subject like this: "[eCS] Subject".
I know that 
>>can be changed by the group owner/moderator. Is there any way the 
>>owner/moderator of this group could add "[os2hardware]" or even 
>>"[os2hw]" to the subject line please?
>>
>>I think there are two eCS-OS/2 groups that don't have that and I know 
>>I've accidentally deleted other messages for that reason. Thankfully I 
>>now usually recognize the sender before I do that.
>>
>>Just a suggestion,
>>    
>>
>
>Those headers were turned off when the lists (os2user & os2hardware) 
>were created way back when after the lists hosted by bmtmicro died, in 
>order to replicate the behavious of the OLD lists.
>
>At the time, members were in agreement on this, however I'm happy to 
>open up a poll on the subject.
>
>Myself, I just filter messages into a folder for mailing lists - and as 
>new members go onto moderated posting, chances of spam from this list 
>are minmscule.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul.
>

Hi Paul,

I heartily agree with Davey.  My problem isn't specifically the 
filtering, but retrieval to the correct one of a whole bunch of folder 
trees after it had mistakenly been sent to the trash. 
os2user/os2hardware are the only two such problem groups.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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