On 2006-09-02, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Aaron Denney wrote: > >> On 2006-09-02, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, isaac jones wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:04 +0200, Christophe Poucet wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> >> > >> >> > Just a small request. Would it be feasible to tag the Haskell-prime >> >> > list in a similar manner as Haskell-cafe? >> >> >> >> I'd rather not. If you want to be able to filter, you can use the >> >> "Sender" field which will always be: >> >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > >> > This isn't really enough if you're scan-reading a pile of stuff - are >> > there any particularly good reasons to avoid the tags? They're pretty much >> > standard practice. >> >> They take away valuable space that can be used for informative messages. >> > > I rarely see a subject I can't read the whole of in a single line anyway, > though.
Well, I've seen it happen on occasion. >> If you want to filter it out, don't do it by hand, that's what computers >> are for. >> > > That's not the problem, though. The occasional problem is not accidentally > thinking "oh, that's spam" and deleting a post because you don't recognise > the poster and the subject line looks vaguely spamlike. And the spammers > have found ways of dealing with bayesian filters by now. If I whitelist > and then scan through a spam folder once in a while that makes things even > worse, because the proportion of spam in the spam folder is that much > higher. I misspoke -- I shouldn't have said "out". Send mailing list traffic to seperate mail folders, with seperate new mail indicators, and everything is golden. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
