4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
5:41 a.m.
Rumor has it that Fred N. van Kempen may have mentioned these words:
Although this has come up a few times already, I am
going to bring it
up again. Come kick my butt if you don't like it :)
Awrighty -- I got my Size 9.5(US) Lacrosse Icemans on right now... ;-)
<thud> Wham. Wham. Wham. Wham. Wham.
-- Ascii representation of the sound of a dead horse getting
beaten once again... :-(
Given the volume of the list, and the many off-topic
(lets not discuss
what is and is not on-topic here) talk, I would like to propose [again]
that we do like other lists do: insert a tag [cctalk] in the Subject:
line of the postings, so it's easy to distinguis the postings from
other, perhaps more pressing e-mail.
Not just no... *Hell no*...
Selecting/filtering based on sender address doesn't
work well for all
clients, and depends on the ability to use processing rules in the
first place.
Then filter on the headers! It's not that hard...
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These are all unique headers to this list. Any MUA worth its salt can
filter on any one of these... even some not worth it, like LookOut Hexpress...
As said, most lists out there already use this
technique, it's been
accepted more or less as a standard, so can we *please* use something
like this ?
Accepted by whom? All but one of the lists I'm on *don't do this* (not to
mention the ones I admin) and the one that did I disliked, and unsubbed as
soon as a better list was available... And this is a "standard" just like
HTML email is currently a "standard" - it's not even compatible with
itself, and in all, it's just a plain bad idea... IMH-But-SysAdmin-Based-O...
I don't want to start Yet Another Discussion, a
mere vote would do, as
we're all techies who know what this is about.
That sounds like the beginning of a 2-hour-pissing-match I had with my
father-in-law a *long* time ago... "I'm not saying this because you don't
want to become an auctioneer..."
In all fairness, if it were a *user configurable* option, I wouldn't give a
whit, so long as I could turn it off... otherwise, you know my vote... but
how many times do we have to vote on this, anyway???
Prost,
"Merch"
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????