Lamar Owen wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
Just the opposite - everyone else is fully equal and capable of
defending the way they prefer things. But, nearly every other list I
subscribe to is polite enough to identify itself with a tag and I don't
recall ever seeing anyone complain about it - _ever_. And since I deal
regularly with both, I have no question about which I prefer.
You must not be on too many mailing lists. In my experience, after having
been subscribed to, at the peak, of nearly a hundred and fifty separate lists
(I'm only on about fifty now, spread across six e-mail accounts), I have seen
the proportion about evenly split. But this is the same as the 'Reply-to:'
versus no 'Reply-to:' split; about 50-50.
Where likewise the only place I've ever seen complaints are the ones
that don't adjust the reply-to, yet the complaints are always met with
'it's morally wrong to do that..'.
The easy thing to do is to use the standard RFC822 (and superceding RFC's)
List-Id: header to do your processing. With the e-mail volume I pull, having
everything coming into a single folder is impossible (I got over 16,000
non-spam e-mails last month from this one account (I have six)); I organize
by folders, and kmail allows some really slick presentation of those folders,
and does the automatic List-Id based filing.
Doesn't that mean you have to jump around in the folders whenever a new
message comes in or you want to reply to something? I don't have time
for that.
Incidentally, awstats tells me the Fedora-List delivered to me over 5,000
e-mails in November; that's nearly one third of my e-mail on this account
last month. Hmm, pretty bad signal to noise ratio on that list, since I've
only left 2600 or so messages in the folder since I resubscribed (after a few
years absence; I unsubscribed after I got tired of arguing for what is now
yum-presto) in September. And I'm getting ready to clean it out; the archive
will likely be left with less than 1,000 messages that have enough meat to be
considered worthy of keeping around.
That's why I send it all through gmail...
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Les Mikesell
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