Small note regarding the mailing list

[Aaron Denney]

On 2006-09-02, Philippa Cowderoy <flippa at flippac.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, isaac jones wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:04 +0200, Christophe Poucet wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > Just a small request.  Would it be feasible to tag the Haskell-prime
>> > list in a similar manner as Haskell-cafe?
>> 
>> I'd rather not.  If you want to be able to filter, you can use the
>> "Sender" field which will always be:
>> Sender: haskell-prime-bounces at haskell.org
>> 
>
> This isn't really enough if you're scan-reading a pile of stuff - are 
> there any particularly good reasons to avoid the tags? They're pretty much 
> standard practice.

They take away valuable space that can be used for informative messages.

If you want to filter it out, don't do it by hand, that's what computers
are for.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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