# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 09:06:08 -0600: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600: > > > The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers. > > > > I hope they don't. > > > > What's your reasoning?
It's 9 characters ("[PYTHON] ") of screen real estate wasted. Of course it's mail from the python-list, it has the appropriate List-Id header! > > > As it stands now, it's too easy to decide incorrectly that > > > "Subject: Inelegant" is a spamdunk. > > > > Don't base your decisions (only) on subject then. Oh, and spam sent > > through the list would have the [PYTHON] space eater too, so what > > would it buy you? > > Of course I wouldn't base decisions _only_ on whether or not [PYTHON] > appears in the subject. But I ordinarily do base decisions on the whole > subject line, and I think that's perfectly reasonable. There's nothing > else to go on without opening the message, and for HTML-based mail > there's no surer way to let spammers know they've found a live email > addres than to open it. You know that. I have no problem opening HTML emails: I (intentionally) don't have a viewer for them configured in mutt which means I see their source. And I delete them all without reading. For Content-Type: multipart/alternative emails, the text/plain part is displayed, and I mostly don't even get to notice there's a html part. If the text/plain part says something hilarious, like "This is a MIME email, get a better email client" which I've seen in a spam, I get to laugh as well. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list