From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7148282992050853213==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Charles Wyble Subject: Re: Could you help to add the tag/keyword in mail list title? Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:51:57 -0700 Message-ID: <4A16F44D.1050800@thewybles.com> In-Reply-To: <1243017717.3147.115.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============7148282992050853213== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Charles, > = >>>> There is no tag like [Ofono dev] in the title of this mail list >>> and that is on purpose! >>> >>> I know that for Exchange/Outlook users this must be painful, but I can't >>> stand these tags that are meaningless anyway. Just automatically sort >>> the mailing into a subfolder. >> Um. Don't presume that someone is using proprietary software just = >> because they ask for a tag. That's a really horrible attitude in my mind. >> >> Some of us have all e-mail come to our inbox for linear reading. I would = >> also like to see a tag added to the subject. > = > if you like to do that, then that is your choice. Why don't you do your > tagging inside Thuderbird then? I read e-mail via my blackberry as well. > = >> It's unfortunate that an open source project outright refuses a request = >> instead of attempting to work with it's members and reach a compromise. >> >> The attitude of several posts so far have been rather condescending, and = >> as such I don't have high hopes for this project. >> >> Hopefully more refined members of the project at the various corporate = >> sponsors will step in and set things right. I realize that many = >> engineers have substantial problems relating to ideas/approaches outside = >> their way of thinking, and as such often need handlers. Hopefully those = >> handlers will emerge here and get this project on the right track. > = > If you wanna start a flame-war then please find a different mailing > list. I'm not trying to start a flame war. I'm trying to open up engineers = mindset to alternative approaches. It's something that often needs to be = done and leads to a better project. > = > We have to deal with cross-postings eventually and therefore, this > mailing list will not have tags in the subject line. Well that's a reasonable argument and one I can accept. :) --===============7148282992050853213==--