22 Oct
2011
22 Oct
'11
8:42 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:54 PM, "Jay West"
<jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm one of "those guys". It wasn't the norm when classiccmp first
started -
I don't think it started to become common until the late 90s, in that brief
period before mail clients generally had useful filtering abilities (or,
indeed, the concept of different folders even)
Personally, I filter different lists according to header data - so there's
no need for subject-tagging and it just wastes up space (I've wondered if
there's a way to set up Thunderbird so that it removes it for the lists I'm
on that *do* have it, but I've never got the tuits together to look into it)
Be thankful that the default reply-to isn't to the individual rather than
the list, unlike one mailing list that I'm on ;-)
cheers
Jules
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. 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.