On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:20:17AM -0700, Lynda wrote:
> It is something that mailman offers, but there was certainly no need to
> use it. I manage mailing lists that do, and ones that don't. Personally,
> I'm in favor of *not* doing it.
I strongly concur. Subject-line tagging is a poor practice and frequently
results in confusion when messages are sent to multiple lists or are
forwarded. As in this very message, for example. The right way to do
this (and it's already being done for NANOG lists) is with List-Id in
the headers.
Further reasons why subject-line tagging is a bad idea are here:
Subject Header Tagging Considered Harmful
http://www.l33tskillz.org/writing/tagging-harmful/
---Rsk
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