* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 19:25]: > Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:39, Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > > >>The tagging is enabled by default in the mailman configuation > >>intentionally. Think about it: If it is so bad - why did the mailman > >>people turn it "on" by default then ? > >> > >> > > > >if it's so good, why do many lists I'm subscribed to run without subject > >line tags? > > > >If there was some way to reliably strip subject-line list tags from > >cross-posted traffic I'd suggest making it a per-recipient option. > > There are good arguments for it and good ones against it. > > The best thing a list can do is to stick with whatever choice > it makes when it is first created, for better or worse. The > worst you can do is to decide to change the behaviour at > some point in the future. > > For me, it makes it obvious what is and isn't opensolaris email. > > As for why I dont implement filters - I use more than one mail > reader with my sun.com email and filter/sort email by hand. > I'm not aware of any mail products that can read my mind and > correctly decidewhich box email is to go in 100% of the time.
Obviously I've blundered into an area where people have decided to care deeply about something I thought was relatively minor. My apologies. Here are some cases the current software is producing: Re: [tools-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] How to make it easy to build OSS on Solaris? Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion [desktop-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris Re: [tools-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 2 I would very much like to eliminate the second and subsequent list name inclusions from subject lines. Are there a substantial number of people filtering on anything other than the first included list name? (And have done so in an order-of-arrival-neutral fashion?) - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
