At 06:09 AM 7/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Was there any particular reason for this change ? Perhaps a change >of policy with respect to the discussions. > >Also, the link from electrorama wiki is now a broken link.
Notice that the list tag changed. Looks like admin has been monkeying around with settings on the list. Let me suggest this as a long-time list manager: don't make unnecessary changes without asking the members. There can be unintended consequences. Sometimes you gotta do it, but.... I noted in another post that changing the list tag screws up my filters, which are used in Mailwasher to protect list mail from the spam filtering, and in my mail program to sort mail. I noticed that the tag had changed because suddenly some of the list mail was ending up in my In box instead of my EM mailbox. Some was still going into the EM folder because the filter looks for EM in the subject header. I filter maybe thirty lists that way. And changing the tag has another consequence. Not only is the longer tag going to mean that less of the subject information is visible in lists of the mail of a certain field width, but mail can't now be sorted properly by Subject where the tag has changed. Notice that lots of current posts have both [Election-Methods] and [EM] in them. Eudora, for example, threads mail properly, in general, where the subject headers have been left intact. It gets confused with Antwort and other response tags.... it's a place where having a standard would be nice, and Re is short and sweet. So who used RE:?? This kind of list tag is commonly created by inexperienced list managers, in my experience, sometimes even longer names are used. Look at very large lists, with very experienced managers, the tag is short and sweet. For example, the Email List Manager's list on Yahoogroups has a tag of [EL-M]. Quite close to EM, to be sure, but different. And most people don't subscribe to so many lists that collisions of short acronyms are a problem. In the rare case that a collision occurs, there are other options for filters, the list tag is just a very convenient and quick way to do it. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
