Subject-Tag Keyword

Subject-Tag= text

LISTSERV 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. The subject line of a typical list posting without a subject tag could look like this:

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

If you were to define:

• Subject-Tag=SCI-FI

Then the subject would look like this for all subscribers with the "SUBJECTHDR" 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 subscriber. It is turned off by default.

The normal default for "Subject-Tag=" is the name of the list, for example SCI-FI. 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.

Setting this keyword does not automatically reset subscribers to the "SUBJECTHDR" option. This must be done manually for existing subscribers and may be specified by default for new subscribers by use of the "Default-Options=" keyword.