Re: Small note regarding the mailing list

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2006-09-02, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:

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On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, isaac jones wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:04 +0200, Christophe Poucet wrote:

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Hello,

Just a small request. Would it be feasible to tag the Haskell-prime list in a similar manner as Haskell-cafe?

I'd rather not. If you want to be able to filter, you can use the "Sender" field which will always be: Sender: haskell-prime-bounces@haskell.org

This isn't really enough if you're scan-reading a pile of stuff - are there any particularly good reasons to avoid the tags? They're pretty much standard practice.

They take away valuable space that can be used for informative messages.

I rarely see a subject I can't read the whole of in a single line anyway, though.

If you want to filter it out, don't do it by hand, that's what computers are for.

That's not the problem, though. The occasional problem is not accidentally thinking "oh, that's spam" and deleting a post because you don't recognise the poster and the subject line looks vaguely spamlike. And the spammers have found ways of dealing with bayesian filters by now. If I whitelist and then scan through a spam folder once in a while that makes things even worse, because the proportion of spam in the spam folder is that much higher. -- flippa@flippac.org Society does not owe people jobs. Society owes it to itself to find people jobs.