From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V2 #45 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Tuesday, March 2 1999 Volume 02 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: dysfunctional songs [Dave Read ] edheads subject lines? [cos@efohio.com (Ofer Inbar)] Re: Re: dysfunctional songs [DearOz@aol.com] EDHEADS: Solomon's Island ["Andrew Bray" ] EFO: Re: dysfunctional songs [Nicole Carlson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:12:47 -0600 From: Dave Read Subject: Re: dysfunctional songs >A harmonica? I thouht it was a love song. Perhaps it's a love song about a >harmonica. Perhaps I'm being overly literal, naive, or both, but "I am wood and steel would you take me in put me in your pocket in your hand I'm the music and the feeling and the reeling in your head..." That just makes me think of a harmonica! :) - -dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:28:00 -0500 (EST) From: cos@efohio.com (Ofer Inbar) Subject: edheads subject lines? Someone has suggested that I set up this mailing list so that every message automatically gets "edheads: " prepended to the Subject line. This would make it easier to filter your mail, if you get a lot of it. Now, my personal feeling is that it's not necessary. Every message to the list should have "edheads@efohio.com" either in the To: or Cc: line, and every email filtering program I've seen can filter and sort mail based on those headers just as well as it can do it by Subject: Given the choice, I'd rather have more space on the screen taken up by the actual subject line written by the person who wrote the message. The extra 9 characters for "edheads: " is 9 characters less for the real subject. But maybe that's just me. If you all want the subject prefix, I'll make it so. Let me know what you think, by writing me privately at cos@efohio.com. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ It's been said that if a sysadmin does his job perfectly, he's the fellow that people wonder what he does and why the company needs him, until he goes on vacation. -- comp.unix.admin FAQ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:57:46 EST From: DearOz@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: dysfunctional songs In a message dated 3/1/99 3:18:05 PM, you wrote: <<"I am wood and steel would you take me in put me in your pocket in your hand I'm the music and the feeling and the reeling in your head...">> sounds like a popiels pocket fisherman to me... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 15:39:50 -0500 From: "Andrew Bray" Subject: EDHEADS: Solomon's Island Any other edheads heading out to Solomon's Island, MD? I've heard its about 2 hours from the DC/NoVA area. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:45:27 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Carlson Subject: EFO: Re: dysfunctional songs On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jess. wrote: > A harmonica? I thouht it was a love song. Perhaps it's a love song about a > harmonica. > I'm just curious about the proliferations of neurotic love stories ... > I hope this doesn't say anything about the band. ;> (j/k) Nah. :) Notice how the proportion of neurotic love-gone-wrong songs per album has decreased over the years. Maybe everyone (ok, except Eddie) getting married had something to do with it. :) > > Really? Imagine Me is a "dysfunctional" song? I never spent a > > whole lot of time dissecting the song, but I always thought it > > was about a harmonica. Ok, I'm willing to admit that I may be wrong about Imagine Me (after all, until very recently (specifically, last Saturday morning, while Jessica and I were driving to Mammoth Lakes) I thought it went "I wouldn't steal, would you take me in...", dooooope), but it sounds to me like the subject of the song is begging his/her SO to take him/her back. That said, I *DO* like the harmonica interpretation. :D Re: prepending "edheads:" to all subject lines Over on the They Might Be Giants list, "TMBG:" gets prepended to all subject lines unless it or something similar (like "NON-TMBG:") is already present. I actually think this works really well--when a message labeled "NON-TMBG:" comes in, the recipient immediately knows that a) it is from the TMBG list, and b) it is not strictly about TMBG. (I'm on the digest version of that list, so the point is academic for me, but it's no doubt useful for others.) This list is so low-traffic that elaborate message-labeling schemes are probably pointless, but if traffic increases substantially it might be worth it. Maybe we should consider "EFO:" instead of "Edheads:", too; that's four characters instead of eight. - --nicole twn *** "The candles burn down... one lights the way, one disappears."--Moxy Fruvous Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org ncarlson@mail.arc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V2 #45 ****************************