[OLPC-devel] Subject header abuse

David Zeuthen davidz at redhat.com
Mon Sep 11 11:19:50 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 11:54 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > A lot of people filter messages on subject. We can be elitist about this
> > being wrong, broken, etc, but people do it, and I have no desire to
> > fight that battle. I could shorten the olpc-devel to olpc-d, though.
> 
> If you fix it, they'll soon stop. They only do it because they're lazy
> and perhaps because they don't realise (or care) that it's unreliable.
> 
> Being "elitist about this being wrong, broken, etc." is now quite how I
> would phrase it -- I'd use words along the lines of "pandering to the
> lazy while obscuring useful information for the rest of us".

I agree with David Woodhouse - the current behavior is highly annoying.
Please fix it. Thanks.

    David





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