[GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

[Adrien Monteleone]

Ralph,

What is your e-mail client? Can it not filter mail? Can it not tag mail? Can it not handle mailing-lists?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 10, 2018, at 3:20 PM, listreader <suselist at cableone.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:00:33 +0500
> "David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> I have tallied up the responses regarding subject prefixes thus far,
>> and it appears that 7 people are in favor of this change.
>> 
>> In contrast, 20 people (including three of the development team) have
>> expressed negative opinions regarding this addition. [In the interest
>> of objectivity, I am one of this group.]
>> 
>> It is unclear to me why such a change would be implemented based on
>> the opinions of two readers (the total number of positive replies
>> prior to implementation), and then not reverted when nearly three
>> times the number of readers expressed their objectons to it.
> 
> Your tally probably doesn't mean what you think it means.  In my
> experience, far more people are likely to complain about 'changes'
> they don't like than are people who approve or are neutral about the
> same 'changes'. Like on a ratio of 10 to 1 or greater.
> 
> I subscribe to around 20 very busy mailing lists, all intentionally
> sent to the same mailbox folder so as not to interfere with all my
> other more urgent business and personal mailbox folders, and all but
> GnuCash have always used a subject prefix. (including one which uses the
> useless/annoying '[Users]' as its prefix but that is another story).
> The prefix is EXTREMELY useful to me. So add me to the 'approve' side
> of your tally.
> 
> Ralph
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