ADM: Subject prefixes

By TML Administrator ·

TML message #7834From bundle 624

[Crossposted only because of critical interest from both XTML and TML
camps...]

Bruce Pihlamae writes:
> included is a sample format with a 'first cut' of suitable codes.
>
>  Subject Codes must be used at all times. Current allowed values are:
>
>  (CT)    Classic Traveller rule set       (IMP)   3rd Imperium Era
>  (HG)    High Guard                       (TCS)   Trillion Credit Squadron
>
>  (MT)    MegaTraveller rule set           (REB)   Rebellion Era
>
>  (NE)    Traveller New Era rule set       (TNE)   The New Era,
>  (FFS)   Fire Fusion & Steel
>
>  (ANN)   Announce releases, erata, etc    (GEN)   Non-specific stuff
>  (FLAME) Flame material, things you hate  (ADM)   Administrivia
>
>  (CAT)   Computer-Aided Traveller         (VDES)  Ship, Vehicle Designs
>  (WDES)  Weapon Designs                   (WORLD) System, World Designs
>  (CHAR)  Character Design
>
>  (ALTHI) Alternate Histories              ( FICT) Short Stories, Fiction
>  (GM)    Scenarios, GM'ing
>
> Hope this is of some use ... are we generating too many codes perhaps?
>
> What do you think?

I like it.  How's this?

In order to be appear in the digest, messages must contain one or more
codes (listed below) embedded in the Subject line, seperated from the
rest of the text by a non-alphabetic character. These codes are used by
the digester to create custom, filtered digests. For example, the
following would appear in digests filtered to include Classic Traveller
and 3rd Imperium messages:

	Subject: CT,IMP: How many Ancients can dance on the head of a pin?

_____RULESET______ ______ERA_______  ________GENERAL________ ____DESIGN SIGS____
CT  Classic Trav   IMP 3rd Imperium  ANN   Announcements     VDES Vehicle Design
MT  MegaTraveller  REB Rebellion           Releases, Errata  WDES Weapon Design
HG  High Guard     TNE The New Era   FLAME Flame/Hate Tirade CDES Char Design
NE  New Era Rules  ____FICTION____   ADM   Administrivia     WDES World Design
TCS Trillion       FICT Stories      GEN   General, non-     CAT  Computer Aids
  Credit Squadron  AHIS Alternate	   specific stuff
FFS Fire Fusion &       Histories
    Steel          GM   Scenarios

So folks, what do *you* think? Have I misplaced FFS? I think before we
add any more categories, we'll probably want to remove some. I think 21
categories is a good working maximum.

James

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