I don't want to have to set up email filtering to pull out Freenet related email on all the different email clients I use to read this list (5, including a mobile phone and an ISP provided web client, neither of which can perform this filtering even if I could be bothered). Am I unusually lazy?
-- jeek cruise wrote: > Actually, it seems to me the consensus is "It isn't hurting me to have > it." > > Which isn't the point at all - would it hurt me to /not/ have it is > the question - since it's presence could well be affecting others. > > Assuming the tagging is the default, and trying to find reasons not to > is the wrong direction. Can anyone suggest a good reason to actually > have it? > > Thus spake Ian Clarke... >> Ok, I guess the consensus is that we shouldn't change. >> >> Ian. >> >> On 5/3/06, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) <nextgens at freenetproject.org> >> wrote: >>> * Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> [2006-05-03 16:38:25]: >>> >>> > The point is that there is no point. They take up space without >>> > serving any useful purpose. This is a particular problem for those >>> > with limited-width mail readers such as Mutt or Pine. >>> > >>> > Ian. >>> > >>> >>> I'm using mutt and honestly don't mind/haven't seen any problem. >>> >>> NextGen$ >>> >>> >>> > On 3 May 2006, at 16:17, John C.C.White wrote: >>> > >>> > >OK. I'll disagree: >>> > > >>> > >- the list is low-volume >>> > >- Subject: headers rarely overflow my (entirely reasonable) space >>> > >allocated >>> > >- I haven't seen any bogus [freenet-devl] messages (yet). >>> > > >>> > >Really, what's the point/need? >>> > > >>> > >-John- >>> > > >>> > >On May 3, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: >>> > > >>> > >>This makes a pretty persuasive argument for ditching the [freenet- >>> > >>devl] subject tags on mailing list emails: >>> > >> >>> > >> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/writing/tagging-harmful/ >>> > >> >>> > >>If nobody can come up with a good argument against this, I suggest >>> > >>we follow its advice and remove the Subject tags. >>> > >> >>> > >>Ian. >>> > >>_______________________________________________ >>> > >>Devl mailing list >>> > >>Devl at freenetproject.org >>> > >>http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >>> > > >>> > >_______________________________________________ >>> > >Devl mailing list >>> > >Devl at freenetproject.org >>> > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >>> > > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Devl mailing list >>> > Devl at freenetproject.org >>> > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devl mailing list >>> Devl at freenetproject.org >>> http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl at freenetproject.org >> http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >> > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
