[GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

[Raymond Smith]

I also prefer keeping the subject prefix.

Ray

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> 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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