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Re: Adding [ietf] considered harmful

2003-12-18 23:11:29
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:19:29 EST, Mark Allman said:

Um, my library slaps a helpful identification tag on the spine of every
book to help me find it.  Your analogy, man ...

A quick sampling of 15 books from our local public library shows that:

a) All 15 have spine tags for on the shelves and barcodes for check in/out.

b) The exact location of neither tag is standardized - the height of the spine
tag is variable and attempts to not obstruct the author/title originally
printed.  The barcode is *usually* placed on the back in such a way as to avoid
obstructing text, but on 2 books is on the *front* because less information got
overlaid that way.

Obviously, the library is telling us to try to not munge existing information by
sticking stuff in the Subject: line. :)

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