From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T07:51:24+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:52:58AM +0900, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 04. Sep 2007, 07:34:48 +0900 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
> > Am Montag, 03. Sep 2007, 07:48:25 +0900 schrieb Devi Web Development:
> > > I don't know who would make this sort of decision, but could we put
> > > [RubyTalk] or [Ruby] or something at the beginning of all messages? It's a
> > > fairly common practice on listserves.
> > 
> > You can easily build the feature yourself when you like
> > it.
> > 
> >         subj = headers[ :subject].first.sub /^(\s*re:)*\s*/i, "\\1 [RubyTalk] "
> >         headers.replace :subject, subj
> 
> Then, of course, you should remove it by hand every time you
> hit the "Reply" button. I don't recommend it.

For purposes of courtesy, I haven't done anything like that, despite the
greater convenience it would give me.  I'm tempted, however, to go ahead
and add [RUBY] at the beginning of mail subject lines after some of the
responses I've seen in this discussion thread to the couple of us who
have expressed a preference for a list identifier in the subject.  One
person even went so far as to tell me I should go ahead and do that,
since one person doing so wouldn't be such a big burden.  Others seem
bent to the task of treating anyone that likes identifiers in subject
lines like the slow children.

It gets old.  I'm not accusing you of behaving in that manner -- I just
found this a handy place to mention it, because you commented on the
discourteous practice of changing subject lines to conflict with list
policy.  It's something I haven't done specifically because of the reason
you indicated, despite the temptation of doing so in part for the benefit
of people who think theirs are the only problems worth addressing.

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