On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:45:06PM -0400, Warren Kumari wrote:
Still a little confused how this morphed into a religious war on RFC 2919 /
List-Id.
I don't think it's a religious war: I think it's long since been
demonstrated that RFC 2919 (and 2369) including List-Id are not only
good ideas, but best practices, and that subject-line tags should
be deprecated/avoided/discouraged, because they're just a kludge.
That is, this is an issue of technical merit, not arbitrary whim.
So instead of bringing back the obsolete idea of subject-line tags, we
should instead be encouraging (a) all IETF lists *not* to use them, but to
use List-Id et.al. instead (b) all (relevant) mail software providers to
support them and (c) all (relevant) mail server providers to support them.
These mechanisms neatly solve a number of problems, and that better
positions everyone to tackle those that remain.
---rsk
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