Jim, you wrote in "Re: LE JOUET (The Toy)": > Would you please put the proper [OT:] tag in your Subject > line? > Thanks! Proper tag for the everlasting "mucked tags" discussion is [OT:] not [EE:], is it? Thanks! Mike. Jim Tellier wrote: > > My thought is that the *some* mail client *sometimes* confuses > > the [EE:] tag with a "RE:" tag, and removes the "[EE:" part so > > there will not be double "RE:" tags. Thats why there is a > > single "]" left sometimes. > > I think that if we always put the ":" *after* the "[]", we > > would not have this "problem". > Yes, I have seen Subject lines with the single "]", but this thread > didn't (in my email client anyway) have that problem. > Seems that the root of the problem might be use of the ":" at all... > what if the convention was spec'd as: "Subject contains [EE] tag", > and forget about the ":"? > I get an awful lot of email, and a significant amount from the PICLIST > shows up in my main inbox, rather than having been "sortable" into > other folders per tag. There's got to be a robust way to do this, I'd > like to think! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.