On May 5, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > 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/
<AOL> Is this a vote thing? Perhaps should we just buttonhole the MailMan admin @ NANOG and either ply him/her with alcohol until they see the error of their ways, or beat them into submission? -- TTFN, patrick _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
