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Rhodri James rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk
Tue Feb 8 17:03:39 EST 2011 
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:18:50 -0000, <przemolicc at poczta.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:16:42PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>> przemolicc at poczta.fm writes:
>>
>> > I have just subscribed to this python-list@ and this is my N list.
>> > Usually many mailing lists use square brackets to identify its name
>> > when you have e-mails from different forums.
>> > Would you consider adding [] to this list also ?
>>
>> No thank you.
>>
>> Either your mail client already knows how to filter messages
>> appropriately depending on which mailing list they came from; or, you
>> should use a better mail client.
>
> mutt is quite good ;-)

Definitely a step up from Outlook :-)

>> Either way, please don't ask for the subject lines to be munged.
>
> Any technical reason why not ?

python-list reflects and is reflected by the comp.lang.python newsgroup  
(and gmane, etc).  People on the newsgroup side won't add [tags] for you,  
and won't thank you for breaking the minimal threading that can be  
inferred from titles if the list reflector adds stuff unexpectedly.

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Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses
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