Re: [tdf-moderators] removing mailing list prefixes?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Florian Effenberger
<floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today, a discussion started on the certification mailing list whether we
> want to get rid of those mailing list prefixes in the subject, like
> [libreoffice-announce], [libreoffice-conference] or [tdf-discuss].
>
> This would be helpful in several ways, like DKIM and other e-mail signing
> tools don't break, plus it looks much better in the mail overview.
>
> However, this depends on how people filter their e-mail. Filtering on the
> subject line is a *real* bad idea, rather use the List-Post or List-Id
> header. However, some mail clients don't support that.
>
> So, my question is:
> Are there mailing lists where we could get rid of this prefix? What do
> people think?
>
> I would imagine that for the users list, removing the prefix is a bad idea,
> while for other lists, it could work pretty well.
>
> Thoughts?
> Florian

I use gmail. I use the prefixes for filtering mail. I would not like
for all of them to be removed, because they are so useful. It is
unfortunate that the "libreoffice-xxx" prefixes are so long. For some
lists I don't care, because I do not filter them.

--Jean

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