Prefix for BIRD maillist emails

Florian Lohoff f at zz.de
Sat Oct 18 23:24:00 CEST 2014


Hi Fernando,

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Fernando Frediani wrote:
> As I said it was not necessarily to do mail filtering on the mail
> clients, but to separate email (in some even cases visually) that
> helps out people, a pure cosmetic thing.
> 
> I see the reasons on the w3.org website and they make complete
> sense, but in the other hand I don't see either that causing much
> issue. Is more as they say: "/because we would rather see effort
> invested in getting mail software fixed to do the right thing than
> provide workarounds that provide no incentive to do so, at the
> expense of users whose mail clients already do the right thing./"
> I think is over concerning with something that doesn't cause that
> much issue other than what is stated on the w3 website, maybe.
> In any way, thanks for replying and for providing the URLs as base.
> No worries as this will not change the propose of the list.

I am still reading my mail with a text only mailreader e.g. mutt. 
I have a 80x25 terminal typically - If you only add a "[bird] " so
the subject line you are claiming ~9% of MY visible line-space.

It might be that your Full-HD display with your graphical mail reader
offers gazillion columns for subject but there are a lot of 
underfunded, underequipped people out there who like to preserve
their screen space for more essential information than a simple
marker.

I read probably 80-100 Mailinglists and i have procmail to sort
my mails into folder. Beeing in the bird folder will show me only
bird mails - so there is no point in adding a subject-tag for me.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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