Small note regarding the mailing list

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Aaron Denney wrote:

> 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.
> 

I rarely see a subject I can't read the whole of in a single line anyway, 
though.

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

That's not the problem, though. The occasional problem is not accidentally 
thinking "oh, that's spam" and deleting a post because you don't recognise 
the poster and the subject line looks vaguely spamlike. And the spammers 
have found ways of dealing with bayesian filters by now. If I whitelist 
and then scan through a spam folder once in a while that makes things even 
worse, because the proportion of spam in the spam folder is that much 
higher.

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