On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Actually, you need to make that proposal on ooo-dev -Rob > - 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
