On 11Dec2007 10:16, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> How else would people know they are doing it wrong if someone doesn't >>> tell them? >>> >> But you definition of "doing it wrong" seems to be "it does not do >> what I want it to do by default" regardless of how you want to do >> things affects other users. Kind of like a spoiled child - if it >> isn't my way, then it is wrong. No-one else's point of view matters, >> or is worth considering. > > 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. Magnificent. Let's see: most of us seem to despise subject line tags. You want them. So ADD them! If that means you need to have a little server process fetching fedora mail and mangling the subject lines and then delivering them to you IMAP host, fine. 1: GMail shows labels. 2: Mutt will happily show the X-Label header (I use that, myself). If Thunderbird won't do such things, get a decent mail reader, don't force us to damage the list set up. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Ninety percent of everything is crud. - Theodore Sturgeon
