Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:
Could we do something about finding the setting in the new mailing list software to remove the nasty "[luv-main] [luv-talk] [luv-main]" subject line cruft that will no doubt appear once this ends up back on the luv-main list? I fear that it's been a month now, and might almost become accepted behaviour to keep munging the subject line like that. And then it's only a short path down the track to LUV-main become a web-forum <shudder>.
I'm sure the Luv mailing list administrators would gladly accept help from anyone who knows mailman and who can be trusted to do reliable work. I'm not in the former category, however, having never administered a list. I agree that removing those [luv-main] etc., annotations from the subject line would be a move in the right direction. They're annoying. I dislike Web fora so much that I won't use them unless there is a truly compelling reason to do so. The problem is that a Web forum forces you to use its user interface rather than one chosen by you I'll gladly take mail, NNTP news, XMPP, IRC, StatusNet or anything else that has a protocol behind it and a good range of client software.