On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 09:48 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Historically we've aggressively avoided mandating format, but I for > one have no problem mandating that for a Report to be a Report it must > have an [Officer] tag as the first thing in the subject line (might also > help with all those "is this really a report/'purporting' to be a report?" > questions). One reason we've avoided format mandates is because we > don't want people to have to re-post reports several times to fix trivial > formatting errors, but this pattern is so well-established I think > errors would be infrequent.
You'd need some way to handle deputisation (where the pattern has historically been less rigid), but apart from that it makes sense. It would ideally be optimal to define a format that doesn't assume email, but good wording can probably deal with that. -- ais523
