On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:24:39AM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * 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). > The above sort of 'error' occurs all by itself in my experience, without any help from missing/present [] tags. :-)
-- Chris Green
