From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Emacs] request: better subject lines Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 13:05:44 -0400 Message-ID: <012b2d17-acf4-28d5-2650-59ac6db6b611@mousecar.com> References: <874lx5dhwd.fsf@pippiandcarlos.com> <20170502134109.GA26043@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493744800 15398 195.159.176.226 (2 May 2017 17:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 17:06:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 To: tomas@tuxteam.de, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 02 19:06:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d5bFz-0003uZ-Q7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 19:06:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5bG5-0001GU-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 13:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5bFZ-0001G9-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 13:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5bFU-0006hQ-7g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 13:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.196]:58235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5bFT-0006fL-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 13:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from nv.mousecar.net ([96.27.75.237]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus002 [74.208.5.2]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LyTAG-1eB7gs2Om6-015r0t; Tue, 02 May 2017 19:05:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170502134109.GA26043@tuxteam.de> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:NF32eFim/IxBNKt+8llEZxqw2E52+MKYOBDyuf8GTxSpoQtrewH KiJFaNciJ0n8Mb0zMtfn/4+8UvpjZKxP/xNtYZF2LHGkO922Nlh5t5uEokBgFQ8srOthtC6 RE6caItb+V++++oPkVVEHEH5NxcTpdBkhcvsGcYlJL43qKhoBwDxVFs94GKukJI3usNeHbB jYD5VQCONzmSR7zdx7kxQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:AXBwNCgYCP8=:E8pfq0O2r2nF3XbXI+Bqzv qpxF8kgLpMhyJlTG1n8keBTgpWP3vHGQ4+TaAd2wl93wVdeZLlBLYipt7dB7l2GvVhtB0gJWO 6A9Uy0Pi6+EneSBV2F3aS1t5NG5R9i2VzrpZSpJjRk7/YEnwYBLdk1XYAZRy4u3DAU2gudsiZ m/rHK2xkqamggvjfgbJY01FtIhVsY8iCALg/FtNxwDkTMn0zOg6VCRo0jHlsd02MDswZJWqoJ xGAHCB4q3raa4I+bZBgGVNemVn8STkHt1P+wTZ4HM1b3TQ0k/WRiGGHc8wSCT/B7nqAB1QG9X gZBzM0QHkvWB3buZ4yGjFe8kcZ2h0FokPiPzearq+n2HlpTem5hunZJBus268FQH0iCDzu3Sw F4KTpeLSprTEZs2TLLkh5TGnlzF/PX1xwEfPicHbvp+LWQdT9lh7Snx3ZS5FoWo22iVsi/kPm RffLwUOgt5jJsMboaZR+sBdNzRJ8kRpy/0mWUFwFJV+mxBofps+uKyhDuwavyWQ/B1jpNWRY8 ux9za/u2nXuoJa7Iw1Tt8xj0ZH+glF8bYH0mk8jfeDBgYkNJ9sh9l+PHpFBXHt4/MQFNtcvWv A+nzOuNBcWv/JwLDOTcnv3fjbuffNv7xSFQV6Xo7Db92VcEjzmav7eyja96EBIoBUllKkmqCV WQxDOgqUKzoYIl5PtKBzuVq36lecQ0d6Hg2Do+Gwwg/UYd2MOq64RuoehVjJpHwb2LSdPvWFD oxqSJqjKdjv/uvc0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.196 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112926 Archived-At: On 05/02/2017 09:41 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:52:45AM -0400, ken wrote: >> On 04/30/2017 11:39 AM, Carlos Konstanski wrote: >>> If you're like me, you get a whole lot of spam. You need to scan the >>> subject lines in your INBOX to decide what's spam and what's ham. If you >>> have to open an email to decide because the subject line is >>> inconclusive, that's bad. >>> >>> The subject lines for this mailing list need to have a [thing] injected >>> so that it's obvious that it is email for this list. Note my example in >>> the subject line of this email. Please? >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Carlos Konstanski >>> >> I agree. I'm much less likely to delete without reading those >> emails which follow your suggestion. > Folks, > > I'd suggest you learn to use what is there. .... I've heard all these arguments/instructions before. They are neither comforting nor persuasive. Also, I've been managing five mailing lists for about ten years, all of which have [mailing-list-name] descriptors (and many more other mailing lists earlier for fewer numbers of years), and absolutely *no one* /ever/ complained, or even mentioned anything, about those descriptors. Heck, I'd guess over the past thirty years I'm been a member of easily a hundred different mailing lists, and never have I heard a complaint about those paltry few helpful characters appearing in list mail Subject lines. So what problem does eliminating them meant to solve? Secondly, I use Thunderbird and, personally, am not at all challenged to create a mail filter. (I've done this also using other, less user-friendly mail software long before Thunderbird existed.) But there was a time, a long time ago, when I was new to mailing lists and it was definitely a challenge. The whole concept of a mailing list was foreign and a mystery. There are still people today who are new to mailing lists. There always will be. Those are the people I am relating to, people who have a problem or question, are told to join this or that mailing list, somehow manage to find one, wade through the steps to subscribe, aren't sure they're subscribed, not even sure what "subscribed" means, then eventually (hopefully) find "it's working" for them (sort of)... then someone on that list gives them further instructions on properly managing their mail. Yes, it's probably no big deal for many here to set up and manage mail filters, and they're quite proud they can, and so expect everyone to do the same. The fact is, not everyone can... not everyone wants to bother. Third, let's put the responsibility shoe on the other foot. Why don't we put the descriptors into all list mail and those who don't want them can set up filters on their systems to take them out? Finally, computers and software are meant to make life and things easier. A lot of tech people, and it seems especially Linux people, don't get that. They appreciate and love wading through the complexity and seem to want others to as well. But there are people who aren't as much enamored with all the technology and have other priorities... writing, for instance. Isn't that supposed to be what emacs is about?