Let in ask, luddite that I am, about another relative-newness that seems
to be a loser and I sure hope dies a worthy death [although since it is
onelist [among others] perpetrating it, as with HTML I suspect
rationality and tradition are doomed]:
Gripe of the day is putting the list-name as a prefix on the subject
line. Majordomo has had the ability to do this for some time, but as far
as I know, virtually every list admin has had the good sense *not* to
enable this. This morning, I got treated to the following:
[Home-Sat] Re: [[Home-Sat] Re: [[Home-Sat] DC Block Splitters]]
(which brings up a more subtle problem of this style of list setup:
if it is gatewayed to usenet [as it is in this case] it is actually
in violation of rfc850:
If the article is submitted in response to another article
(e.g., is a "followup") the default subject should begin
with the four characters "Re: " and the References line is
required. (The user might wish to edit the subject of the
followup, but the default should begin with "Re: ".)
Alas, we didn't have the foresight to make a similar rule for
email...
So, am I just being a luddite, yet again, or should I send complaints to
onelist [although fat lot of good it'll do I suspect]? Would any of you
actually make use of this 'feature' of Majordomo [or another listserv]?
Should we/i suggest to the greatcircle folk to remove it from majordomo
as being a bad idea?
/Bernie\
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