Re: Proposition for list headers

From: Arnoud (galactus@stack.nl)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:59:10 +0200

In article <ATgoz0Zotitb090yn@xs4all.nl>,
itsux@XS4ALL.NL (Ren Kint) wrote:
> Proposal: Put a simple descriminator in the subject header,
> like [YARN]:, so this message would appear like:

No, please don't do that. Some mailing lists I am on do that, and
it tends to greatly confuse mailers, you can end up with subjects like

Subject: [Yarn] Re: [Yarn] Some subject (fwd)

which is wasting half the subject line.. There are very few situations
in which such a marker adds something useful.

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