[Election-Methods] (no subject)

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Tue Jul 24 19:33:02 PDT 2007


On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> Hey, bummer! The list tag got changed. I've got filters all over the
> place doing stuff with [EM]. Sure, it's not terribly unique, but
> subject header space is precious, lists should have very short tags.
> There is little harm if there are lists with the same tag, few people
> will be subscribed to both! And then there are other fields that can
> be filtered on, such as domain that it's coming from.
>
> Now, before I change all my filters, any chance of taking it back to
> what it was? Which was better? People all over have been calling this
> the EM list.... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I agree that a shorter tag is to be preferred, but it's probably a  
better idea to filter on the List-Id header. (I filter on the list  
address, which also changed....)



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