On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:18:04AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote: > Most of the ohter mailing lists I'm on have such a tag [...]
That's because they haven't figured out (per http://www.l33tskillz.org/writing/tagging-harmful/): - it violates the principle of minimal munging - tagging is no longer needed for filtering - tagging wastes precious space - it coddles the lazy and penalizes the conscientious - it discourages discussion - tagging is often broken - tagging doesn't scale to multiple lists My expectation is that NANOGites are clueful enough to choose and use mail clients that deal with headers, including RFC 2369 headers, gracefully. One workaround for people who can't do that (due to whatever constraints apply) is to use procmail or equivalent to munge the Subject line to their personal taste before local delivery. But c'mon, RFC 2369 is now ten years old and RFC 2919 is seven; it's well past time to leave the ill-considered practice of subject-line tagging behind us. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
