[GNC] GNC Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

[John Ralls]

Add me to the list of folks who dislike this change.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 7, 2018, at 11:32 PM, Amish <anon.amish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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