On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:

> On 11/3/02 10:41 PM, "Justin Erenkrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --On Sunday, November 3, 2002 7:33 PM -0500 Henri Yandell
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Exactly [regex bit]. Commons and Jakarta-Taglibs both work well when
> >> people obey this convention [with [general] as an 'everyone' one],
> >> but enforcing it would stop the frequent times when a new user to
> >> the Dev list has to be given the speech.
> >>
> >> Also stops us forgetting too :)
> >
> > -1 on mandatory enforcement of this.
> >
> > If people want to have this as a convention fine, but this should not
> > be required.
> >
> > Personally, I don't think adding such fields to the subject line is a
> > good idea.  IMHO, a far better thing is to just have meaningful
> > subject lines in the first place.  -- justin

I'm fine with the sentiment, but mail filters don't deal with meaningful
subject lines.

> -1 on mandatory enforcement, but +1 on encouragement.
>
> You'll find that with the slosh of messages for unrelated projects on the
> commons list, having a hint of what to read or dump is very helpful.

Still, it will lead to an increase of the number of times [d] has to be
hit. Would be nice to have a mail-agent in which I can hit 'D' or
something and it will kill anything in that thread.

Hen

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