> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 04 November 2002 15:03

> 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.

I don't see what it helps us to put all msgs in one list if people
are (going to be) filtering them out by subject anyway.  We might aswell
split lists (to hold related projects?) and have a bigmother@ list subscribed
to all lists, so that the people who wish to see all traffic can do so by
only subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sander

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