* On 11 Apr 2012, Chris Green wrote: > > The advantage of this solution is that it affects only how the message > > is displayed in the pager, so the people who set up the mailing list to > > expect these [list tags] still get them back from you when you reply. > > No mailing list I have come across needs what's between the [], they get > put there automatically on *every* message sent from the list so > removing them from replies has no effect at all on what others see.
I don't know the current status of every list manager, but I've seen cases (probably in older versions of Mailman) where absence of the [tag] would cause problems. IIRC it was specifically that you would get this pattern: Send Subject: Foo Recv Subject: [list] Foo Send Subject: Re: [list] Foo Recv Subject: Re: [list] Foo Send Subject: Re: Foo Recv Subject: [list] Re: Foo Send Subject: Re: [list] Re: Foo Recv Subject: Re: [list] Re: Foo I imagine this is still possible where someone is using a "re:" string that the list manager does not recognize as a localized version of Latin (aw, sv, etc). -- David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • IT Services • University of Chicago
