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    SubjectRe: Email subject line
    Hello,

    > I am a new comer to this email list and presumably I should shut up for
    > a while. But this is really a traffic email-list and I got about 100
    > emails everyday, which stuffed my mailbox and made it very hard for me
    > to read other kinds of emails--emails from friends, department activities,
    > etc.
    >
    > I have a little suggestion as to the email subject line being sent out
    > by the email list server program. Can we add something like [LK] in front
    > of every email subject line? LK stands for Linux Kernel. I was in several
    > other email list before which has high traffic too. They did something
    > like this and it was very neat.
    >
    > This amount of traffic almost scared the hell out of me and it
    > surely stoped some people from joining us. So hope my suggestions can be
    > adopted.

    Why not set up procmail filtering based on the `Sender' header instead?
    My .procmailrc contains:

    :0
    *Sender: owner-linux-kernel@
    Mail/kernel_list

    Have a nice fortnight
    --
    Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
    Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
    "Everything counts in large amounts." -- Depeche Mode

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