i hate this idea of adding tags to the subject: line. there is
nothing wrong with checking 'any header' for
"community@lists.openmoko.org" and if its found, put it in its own
folder. If you can search for a "[subjectag]", you can search for an
email address: thus, [subjecttag] is redundant, unnecessary, and
clutters the subject information, which ought to be better used as it
is ..
j.
On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Casey Harkins wrote:
Dean Collins wrote:
I do run filtering in Outlook - but I run it on subject - less
processor intensive.
How is filtering on subject less processor intensive than using
mailing list headers?
And thanks Casey - I also subscribe to about 5 or 6 other lists
and they all have subject prefixes as well (and much larger more
frequent lists than openmoko)
I also subscribe to a large number of other lists and only 2 of the
20 or so have subject prefixes (one of them is the openmoko
announce list).
It's a little thing but it's silly not to get this fixed sooner
rather than later - especially as in the very near time frame I
imagine that FIC will need to have a number of different lists
(newbies, experts, apps, developers, commercial) etc
I disagree that there is anything to be "fixed". Munging the
subject line or reply to fields would be breaking things rather
than fixing them. There are a number of ways to distinguish mailing
list messages from each other without munging the subject line.
I don't want to start a holy war on this as I've seen many in the
past. However, I've yet to see a convincing argument that justifies
the use of subject munging and numerous convincing arguments that
it is a bad thing a prone to breaking. If it is the will of the
community, I'll deal with it.
-casey
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