[Adium-devl] No more subject line mangling for Adium-devl

Chris Forsythe chris at growl.info
Tue Oct 9 08:01:45 UTC 2007


+1, well said

On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Eric Richie <edr1084 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess I'm not sure why the tag needs to go in the first place.  It  
> was
> said that we should do so to help the pidgin guys follow along?   
> This seems
> silly.  We subscribe to their list so that we can follow along with  
> their
> development, so why don't we simply ask them to do the same for us?   
> I know
> that they have had some VERY long arguments... err "discussions"  
> about how
> much they hate the tag on the subject line but if it works for us we  
> should
> keep using it.  It seems just as easy for them to sign up as it is  
> for us to
> do so for them.  As it is, a large portion of the discussion on  
> their list
> doesn't affect us and vice versa so isn't it all just relative?  I'd
> personally rather see the tag stay as it's useful to be able to  
> instantly
> see which of my messages are from adium with no filtering needed.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On 10/8/07 11:48 PM, "Colin Barrett" <timber at lava.net> wrote:
>
>> It means *every* poster must remember to reply-all.
>>
>> Basically, it is impossible to cc people from offlist. Funnily  
>> enough,
>> adding the tag back in would solve this issue, since people could use
>> the tag to filter!
>>
>> Hmmmmmmmmm.
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>>
>>> The only case that removing the reply-to munging fixes is when folks
>>> are cc'd from off-list, an uncommon occurrence.  Reply-to-all is
>>> necessary in that case, too, unless the poster remembers to set the
>>> reply-to field to everyone involved....
>>
>>
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