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Re: subject_prefix on IETF Discuss?

2011-08-03 11:56:40


On 8/3/2011 9:40 AM, Peter Koch wrote:
The visual cue this convention provides is helpful and it's an extremely
widespread convention.

maybe we should eat our own dog food as served in RFC 2919 or,
to touch another popular issue, declare 2919 "Historic"?


Peter,

That's a rather odd suggestion to make

   *  in a message that conforms to that RFC

* with many of us using mail software (such as Thunderbird) that detects List-* fields and adapts, such as offering a "Reply List" command when present

So...

   -1.

d/

ps. Besides its being benign to have redundant indication of list handling, the different conventions serve different purposes.

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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