Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:08 : \____
>
<snip subject tags debate>
>> I don't know what effort it takes you to do this, but personally, I
>> rather like the tags. It gives me a feel before I go in regarding what
>> I'm going to get.
>
> I think that they introduce a problem but making the subject lines long
> (leading to truncation in some mail clients). One thing they sometimes help
> with is context. If a subject line turns from:
>
> Slax y.y and AntiX x.x Released
>
> To
>
> [Linux] Slax y.y and AntiX x.x Released
>
> Then it becomes clearer to those less familiar with Linux that these are
> probably distributions.
>
Which is helpful enough. Unfortunately, there's not a particularly easy
way of hiding the tags, is there? Perhaps for the more experienced
users, a separate header line could help instead? Something like this:
X-News: True (or False, of course)
X-News-type: Linux (or Rival, or Copyright, or GPL, etc.)
So scoring might be done on the extra header lines? Just a thought, I
can't say I've tested it to see if it would work, either!
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