[p2p-research] p2presearch Digest, Vol 19, Issue 153

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 03:01:19 AM -0700, marc fawzi wrote:

> you can tag the subject line with standardized words e.g.*Money*,
> *General* etc, that we agree to as a group (and can be added it,
> amended) so that people can setup filters (e.g. in gmail) to filter
> in/out messages with specific tags

I don't think it would accomplish much, not on this list anyway. First
of all, for many people, much of the time they should waste if they
tried to follow a complete discussion on this list from beginning to
end is AFTER opening a message, that is coping with all the issues
I've mentioned in the "Mailing list efficiency" post.

Secondly, this list already has the [p2p-research] string in the
subject, which creates no problems to me but isn't really necessary
(you can filter messages from a list through other headers, unless you
only have some limited webmail account): adding tags would mean that
with certain clients and small devices you'd not see most of the
actual subject.

Third, and more important, this list is so (rightly!)
interdisciplinary that a) it'd be almost impossible to give less than
2/3 tags to most messages, b) there would be atrocious flamewars,
sooner or later, about which tags ought to have been prepended to a
certain subject.

Marco
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