---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A7E85AFC007A; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:33:44 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <17.00CC5A58@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:03:32 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 8887 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:03:27 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 5265; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:36 -0500 Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with SMTP ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:35 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net Received: from amd1200 ([64.231.209.178]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040131000137.CQHV26187.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@amd1200> for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:41 -0500 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Herbert Graf Subject: Re: [ADMIN:] Hey admin! About topic flags... To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <401AE66B.00000E.03800@GAIC4> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856610 > Hello, > > I'm using the Piclist for about 3 months now, and as far as I see > the [TAG:] > or [TAG]: confuses most people (I'm one). > > So, why not using just [TAG] without any colon. This will make simpler to > everybody to set up their mail filter, and will avoid most e-mail clients > removing the tags by confusing them with "Re:"-like tags. If you check the archives (it was discussed a long time ago), and IIRC, that isn't possible because the mailing list server requires the colon to properly parse the tags. A message without a colon is the same as a message without a tag. TTYL ---------------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body .