ADMIN: Handling of "tags"

Just a suggestion about the implimentation of the "redistributer" program
that runs this list.

I noticed a goodly number of people are using "tags" like the "ADMIN:"
tag in my subject...  I think this is good.  I'd love to see it go one
step further, and have every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended
to the subject, so that I can read this more important mail first.  Also,
I notice that a lot of people reply to messages without editing the
subject, and the subject gets "mangled" to "Re: ADMIN: ..." instead of
"ADMIN: Re: ..."  Would it be possible to have the redistribution
software changed to do the first and correct the second?   Are these
changes worth it to anyone besides myself?

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# ... and have every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended
# to the subject,  ...

I do this on two digests that I edit, and I have one realtime
reflector that automatically inserts a tag into the Subject: line. 

The problem is when something gets nandoed into more than one
mailing list, the tags take up the whole subject line.

But it seems worth the bother.  				

				strick

>>  I'd love to see [...] every cypherpunks message have a "CPUNK:" prepended 
>> to the subject [...] 

>> I notice that a lot of people reply to messages without editing the
>> subject, and the subject gets "mangled" to "Re: ADMIN: ..." instead of
>> "ADMIN: Re: ..."  Would it be possible to have the redistribution
>> software changed to [fix these?].

My mail reader (Xmh) allows me to sort incoming mail by any header field.  I key
off the "to: cypherpunks" to put this mail in a different box.  The information
you need is already in the header, and I would object to adding more noise to the
beginning of the subject field to obscure the real subject.

On the second point, I agree that the second is better, but my mail sorter is
smart enough to sort "Re: foo" with "foo", so again, no change is necessary.  Is
there any chance you can get access to a more powerful mail reader, rather than
asking everyone to clutter up the headers with redundant info?

Chris