[Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Sean Figgins <sean at labrats.us> wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>  > Some advice, once given to me by a NANOGer, is:
>  >
>  >    "just use .procmailrc to change your headers as you see fit"
>
>  Not everyone that reads NANOG runs their own mail servers, or have
>  access to procmail.  Personally, I HATE procmail.  It's almost as bad as
>  manually writing the rules in sendmail.  I have the option to use, or
>  not to use procmail, as I run my own server, and that of my company, but
>  I still prefer that NANOG mailing list puts the tag in the header.

LOL!  I'm too lazy (tired?) to search the archives... but I would bet
that my response back then was near similar to your response today.
Please understand I only recommended procmail as a tongue-in-cheek
work around.

>  I wish that everyone would just adjust themselves to change rather than
>  me stuck in the past with excuses like "it wastes space", or "it
>  violates XXX principle".  Those arguments always sound like a bunch of
>  rules lawyers that don't actually care about the content of the list as
>  much as the proving themselves right, and thus better than everyone else.

:-)  Generally I Agree.   One counter-point:  as the intertubes are
focusing on smaller and smaller devices, Subject line realestate is
becoming a valid concern.

-Jim P.