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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: ofono@ofono.org
Subject: Re: Could you help to add the tag/keyword in mail list title?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:41:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243017717.3147.115.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A16DF3C.60208@thewybles.com>

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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?

> 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.

We have to deal with cross-postings eventually and therefore, this
mailing list will not have tags in the subject line.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-22 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22  1:58 Could you help to add the tag/keyword in mail list title? Zhao, Halley
2009-05-22  2:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-05-22 12:57   ` Luis Santiago
2009-05-22 13:05     ` Leandro Dorileo
2009-05-22 13:07       ` Adam McKerlie
2009-05-22 13:54         ` Sousou, Imad
2009-05-22 17:24           ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 17:23         ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 17:23       ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 13:05     ` DJDAS
2009-05-22 13:55     ` Aki Niemi
2009-05-22 17:26       ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 18:37         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-05-22 19:11           ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 17:22     ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 17:41       ` Daniel Ribeiro
2009-05-22 17:55         ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 17:22   ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-22 18:41     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-05-22 18:51       ` Charles Wyble
2009-05-25  4:12 ` Guo, Young

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