On 10 Jul 1999, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> J> This is a good point :) Fortunately for Listar, it already does
> J> duplicate tag removal (and pushes the tag to the front of the subject as
> J> well :)
>
> Ummm, isn't that the wrong behavior? I was under the impression that it
> needed to go _after_ the 'Re:' so that replies look like replies
> (i.e. start with 'Re:').
Technically, yes, but the majority of the users I asked preferred it this
way (since Listar automatically handles trimming down the number of
Re:'s). The only people who really want subject tags are usually those
who aren't filtering into separate folders, so that they can just run down
the list of message in their inbox and see the subject tag right at the
beginning of the line.
Moreover, on at least one list I'm on (but don't run), due to the number
of mail clients that don't honor the 'if Re: is at the beginning of the
subject, don't add another on' rule, I've seen subjects end up as:
Subject: re: Re: RE: re: RE:Re: [tag] Subject
Which, in most mail clients, ends up showing up merely as
're: Re: RE: re RE:Re: ['
Not too useful. (I actually pasted the 'Re:' portion of the line directly
from the folder for that list, in another window. So I'm honestly not
exaggerating there.)
This method would've stripped down to:
Subject: [tag] Re: Subject
...which, if you must have subject tags, is far more useful.
I've seen more and more mailing list packages beginning to handle subject
tagging this way. Lyris was the first I saw to do it, and after a number
of users requested the same functionality in Listar and when I implemented
it as an experiment and no one complained and several in fact commented
that they much preferred it, I left that behavior as the default. :)
--Loki
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