[OLPC-devel] Subject header abuse

Pablo Manuel Rizzo rizzopablo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 11:24:59 EDT 2006


On 9/11/06, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Me too



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