21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
11:51 p.m.
On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:54 PM, "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Dave wrote....
I'm quite surprised to hear this. Have those guys just never seen any other mailing
lists? That is very much the norm, and has been for a really long time.
Weird.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
I don't know of any that don't allow
this, and I don't know of any other mailing lists which don't have that subject
line tag. I've suggested it a few times over the years but nobody seems interested.
Actually, I had that turned on for some time on the list, people complained bitterly and
asked me to remove it, so I did. I believe the prevailing objection was that it made
subject lines longer (scrolling some of the more "important" part of the subject
out of view on some peoples mail clients), and in fact there were other ways to
identify/classify it, particularly source addresses, headers, etc.