Jorge Godoy schrieb: > I'm sorry for the sincere opinion, but I believe this is the wrong way to > solve the problem. The correct way would be using a better MUA, IMHO. If > your's doesn't provide you with enough resources, choose one that does.
While I agree with you that cluttering the subject line is a Bad Thing, I don't understand, whether you are generally opposed to the idea of tagging list posts or just via the subject line? The whole idea about tagging (and let's not forget attaching a description/summary to a post/thread) is 1) to to shift the workload from each single user/the list summary author to the community and thereby 1a) implicetely categorizing a post/thread in a manner likely to be useful to everybody, not just the original author. 2) To allow searching and generating reports on list posts not just with a special MUA or Google, but to generate a database, in which you can dig with whichever tool ou want. Point 1a) also answers your concern about shifting topics in mailing list threads. Either the thread will be found under the right tag, because enough people have chosen this tag, or somebody has written a summary, that contains the necessary keywords. Of course this depends on the possibility that everybody can tag list posts, not just the author. This might be difficult to implement in an accessible manner. Ideally, I envisage that every post contains a footer with several links like this: Tag this post: http://tagging.org/tg-ml/63738/add_tags Summarize this thread: http://tagging.org/tg-ml/63738/add_summary etc. Unfortunately, Google Groups does not support dynamic content in message footers (I just tested it), so I don't see a method yet to insert some form of message ID into the URLs. But the tagging service needs some way to determine which message should be tagged. Another problem is that message footers are not shown in the Google web interface. I guess, one could create a Thunderbird extension to extract the message ID from the mail headers and provide a toolbar button for tagging, but then users would have a) to have the right MUA and b) to first install the extension. So, currently I'm out of ideas. Of course, if we had our own mailing list server, adding a dynamic footer would be no problem... Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
