I personally find the absence of a list-name prefix, something simple like [ooo-users], to be a problem.
First, if folks BCC the list, it is a problem. And when getting cross-postings among lists that don't prefix, that is another problem. And there are some peculiar situations where a message is administratively forwarded from one list to another where, as the recipient of one of those, I have no idea what happened and why it is in my inbox (or spam folder) instead of where my mail-arrival rules put things. On the other hand, there is no button to push to make prefixing work. Sorry. As Andrea observes, it is possible to request that infrastructure make whatever incantations are necessary to add a prefix for this list. I have not heard any objection. Applying the Apache lazy-consensus principles, I will wait at least 72 hours (until midnight UTC: 2012-01-07T24:00Z) for any objections to be heard. If the discussion has quieted and there is no substantive objection, I'll turn in a request to add the prefix. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 06:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Forum name in subject James Knott wrote: > In short, having the forum name in the subject provides useful function. Apache usually prefers not to use tags/prefixes in subjects, but indeed all the old OpenOffice.org lists are configured the other way and users are used to this. The Italian OpenOffice users list on Apache, for example, uses [utenti] as subject tag since we requested it explicitly: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4223 If there is consensus for introducing a [users] or [ooo-users] subject prefix on this list too, it can probably be done. But if there are people who prefer not to have a subject prefix then we are stuck. As for me, I don't have strong preferences, but I find it reasonable that users list rely on the simple subject prefix while developers lists expect more sophisticated headers handling. Regards, Andrea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
