[GNC] GNC Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

Amish anon.amish at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 02:32:29 EDT 2018


Even I feel it annoying and unnecessary.

Here is what w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) which develops Web 
standards has to say about adding subject in their own mailing list.

Source: https://www.w3.org/Mail/subject-tagging

    Subject tagging is not a reliable way to identify mail from a
    mailing list versus personal email, because if someone sends a
    personal reply off the list, they will likely not remove the list
    tag from the subject and the mail will get filtered to the
    recipient's list mailbox even though it was not distributed by the list.

    ... we would rather see effort invested in getting mail software
    fixed to do the right thing than provide workarounds that provide no
    incentive to do so


Also subject tagging may also break signed messages which work on 
subject header. (depending on how mailing list is configured)

Amish

On Sunday 08 April 2018 06:33 AM, Dave H wrote:
> I'd rather you didn't do this at all, I typically just scan down the
> subject line of all the emails in my inbox and it's just annoying to try
> and ignore the crap on the beginning of the subject line !!!!!!
>
> On Sun, 8 Apr. 2018, 10:22 am Liz, <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>> Steve Parry wrote:
>>> Thank you Liz😊
>>>
>>> Commonly, list prefixes are in square brackets to be more unique and make
>>> it clear it's a prefix.
>>>
>>> Any chance of changing them to [GNC] etc?
>>>
>>> Thank you again!
>>> Cheers...Steve
>> Yes, I already spotted that lapse and amended it.
>>
>> Liz
>>
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