Quoting Jeff Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I certainly agree with a simple [SA} prefix so that the SA emails don't get lost and deleted with all the other stuff I get. However, this came up a few months ago and the SA list nazis decided that we must be too stupid not to have programmed our email clients to automatically sort our email. Those of us in favor got voted down.
I think this is a majority rules - minority rights things. Not having a prefix just makes it extra hard for many of us.
Since i wasnt on the list when the previous discussion was circulating, i
checked some of the archives to get up to date on the topic. I saw lots of "i
think the prefix should be there" and "i think it shouldnt be there" types of
posts but none that i could find actually stated why it should or shouldnt be
there. The closest i could find was someone saying something along the lines
of the unnecessary prefix just makes subject lines longer. while this is true,
i hardly believe it to be a reason not to have it.
Yes, i realize that the list can be filtered on the listid header. This is what
i am already doing. However as has been pointed out on the list this is also
subject to change, and as many of us found out, there hasnt even been a
notification of this change neither before nor after the change was done.
AFAICT there hasnt even been any acknowledgement from the list owner(s) that
the recent listid header change was even made and for what reason. The closest
to this was a post from a list subscriber who stated that the @ sign is not
supposed to be in the listid header. But, we're all just basically guessing
here.
As also mentioned previously on the list, this is the first that i have seen to
NOT include the prefix in the subject. While this is not a reason in its own
to include the prefix, it certainly shows what is "usually"* done. Note also
that the apache mailing list itself does indeed prefix the subjects. One would
think that ASF projects would try to standardize on this sort of thing.
So until someone cant point out some valid reasons as to why the subject should
not have the list prefix, im all for including it.
* I say usually loosely here. I am judging this based on 8 different mailing lists that i have been a part of.
My $0.10
-Jim
