[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-05 Thread Stephen Potter
> The subject line is halfway to useless anyway, > because most people on the various opensolaris > maillists happily changes the subject of the > message itself without changing the subject line. So, are we looking for a technical solution to a user problem? Hardly ever works. How about worki

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-04 Thread Jasse Jansson
On May 4, 2006, at 9:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also no safe way to remove the "[XXX]" stuff. I've asked around on IRC and the common warning is that this will break "Subject:"- lines in non-ASCII encodings. Please simply leave the tags alone - IMO all the discussion turns

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-04 Thread Calum Benson
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:20 +0200, Felix Schulte wrote: > Yeah, put my vote into the "no way" list, too. The softies who > complain should learn to write their own filter scripts to cut out the > tags and shouldn't harass the majority here with such proposals. Quite right too... why make the defa

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-04 Thread Felix Schulte
On 5/2/06, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Over in website-discuss, we've reached consensus > that, for the site > lists as a whole, the various "[foo-discuss]" tags > should not be > prepended to subject lines by default. > Since opensolaris-discuss is the highest traffic > a

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 01:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: > If you could somehow convince me that cross-posted messages are good, I might > agree.;-) if you could convince me that discussions never need to cross predefined cubbyhole boundaries and that we could get all the boundaries right in advance I mig

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Hargreaves
I've always filtered off Return-path. Pertty much every mailing list that I'm on sets this correctly. alan. -- Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance) Product Technical Support (APAC) Sun Microsystems I'm going in the World's Greatest shave for L

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Rushmore
> > > Over in website-discuss, we've reached consensus > that, for the site > lists as a whole, the various "[foo-discuss]" tags > should not be > prepended to subject lines by default. > Since opensolaris-discuss is the highest traffic > alias on > opensolaris.org, I think it is reasonable

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:29, Andrei Dorofeev wrote: > > What is the reason other people want to remove them? > - deals poorly with crossposting -- you get multiple tags in random > orders when threads hop lists. > - consumes precious screen real estate in certain mailer