subject line tagging

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002, Bill Eldridge wrote:

> I just don't understand why you guys can't do a mailing list like
> everybody else does it, which means none of your subscribers has to
> lift a finger (and yes, the first time I mentioned this, the answer I
> got back was, "Use Procmail").

   I wonder who « erverybody else » is. I subscribe to a huge amount
of mailing-lists, including several Debian lists, several GNOME lists,
linux-kernel, darwin-devel, bugtraq... and the only lists which add a
subject line tag are the Vorbis lists and the SDLPerl list. I'm afraid
I can't really subscribe to your idea that subject tagging is a common
practice.

> Of course if I want to filter the Subject line on "[VLC]" I can
> do that as well. If I want. Or use Ctrl-Shift-F and search VLC in
> Subject. If I want.

   I understand your requirements and I agree that if you don't want to
use additional tools and you also don't want to use extra mail folders,
then your only chance is subject tagging. But think about other people
who probably don't use the same tools as you. For instance, my display
is 80 character wide; having a tag like [libdvdcss-devel] eats a third
of the space allocated for the subject in the thread window. They really
are a visual annoyance to me.

-- 
Sam.
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