From: "Mary Blanton" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:18 PM
Could we possaby have a label at the begunng of the subject line?  It
sure would make housekeeping a whole lot easier.

**Unlike the advertiser-supported mailing lists, our listserv software
provided by St. John's University is completely configurable by end users
who can toggle subject tags at their pleasure.  Therefore, it is not up
to list owners to decide but end users on whether or not to employ
subject tags and the tag itself.  Below is the discussion in the manual
on this topic and the commands needed to toggle subject tags.

Kelly


(New for 1.8c)

LISTSERV  now supports  "subject tags",  i.e.,  the ability  to insert  a
predefined text tag into the subject line of mail coming from a list. For
instance, your  subscribers might want  the subject lines of  mail coming
from your  list to  contain the  name of your  mailing list.  Whereas the
RFC822 subject  line of a  typical list  posting without a  "subject tag"
would look like this:

Subject: I think ID4 is a great movie, don't you?

if you were to define

* Subject-Tag= SCI-FI

the subject  would look like this  for all users  who are set to  the new
"SUBJheader" personal option:

Subject: [SCI-FI] I think ID4 is a great movie, don't you?

Note that this option may be toggled on and off by the user by use of the
new "SET listname SUBJecthdr" option. It is turned off by default.

The normal  default for  "Subject-Tag=" is  the name  of the  list, e.g.,
SCIFI-L.  If "List-Address="  is defined  for your  list, the  default is
either  the name  of the  list or  the list  ID, whichever  is listed  in
"List-Address=". A subject tag can be only a single word; in other words,
you cannot define a sentence to be used as a subject tag.

Note  that if  a user  sends  a message  with a  blank RFC822  "Subject:"
header,  LISTSERV will  not  create  a "Subject:"  header  and place  the
subject tag  into it. Subject tags  will only work when  posters define a
subject for their message.


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