Prefix to subject line (Tim Huetz)

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Sat Apr 21 03:14:59 EDT 2007


On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Step wrote:

> http://www.l33tskillz.org/writing/tagging-harmful/
>
> Subject line munging is explained well and advised against in this  
> article.  I'll copy the summary in for the lazy, in spite of that  
> being one of the points.  ;)
>
>
> Some list administrators may not care much one way or the other about
> Subject header tagging, but simply haven't bothered to turn off the
> feature on their lists.  Other list administrators actively want to
> have their lists perform Subject header tagging, because they believe
> it provides a benefit for their subscribers.  But it doesn't:

We had this discussion once already, PLEASE can we not have it again?

Seriously, spare me another jihad. As I said before, I like the tags,  
but if the list admin doesn't want them, I can add them back in myself  
no problem. It's not a big deal either way.

-Colin




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