From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2007-09-06T05:04:26+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

> You're apparently assuming that everyone who has different preferences
> from you is:

Not having different preferences, but trying to force them on others.

>   1. a luddite with an underfeatured MUA
Wrong.

>   2. stubbornly unwilling to sort the "right" way
Wrong.

>   3. trying to make up for personal shortcomings by changing the way the
>   list is managed
Right.

> . . . which is kind of a shitty attitude about your fellow list members.
Not about all members.

> So can mutt, which I'm using.  My preference for visible list markers has
> nothing to do with that, and I don't know where you got the idea that
> anyone that wants to be able to identify the source of a given message at
> a glance without giving up other identifying information must be using
> the mail command and sed as his MUA.

In Gmail I see the message source at a glance because it puts
"ruby-talk" label on it.

> > BTW, changing tools from time to time can be a very good idea. Especially if the
> > change is for the more capable tool. There may be some productivity
> > loss at first
> > (but not in MUAs case, I must say), but you are better off in a long run.
>
> "Change is good, so use what I do."  That's not very helpful.

It was  "more capable tool" not "what I do".

> Sure.  So does your piss-poor attitude about the preferences of others.
Not others.  Yours.

I won't ask you to put [Chad Perrin] into the subject line so I in the future
I can deal with your abusive  messages in a way I prefer, luckily my
MUA can do that
without much trouble already.

As I already voted with "nay" there is no need for me to participate
in this thread any more, especially in nonconstructive way like this.

Regards,
Rimantas
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