On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:45:06PM -0400, Warren Kumari wrote: >> Still a little confused how this morphed into a religious war on RFC 2919 / List-Id. > > I don't think it's a religious war: I think it's long since been > demonstrated that RFC 2919 (and 2369) including List-Id are not only > good ideas, but best practices, and that subject-line tags should > be deprecated/avoided/discouraged, because they're just a kludge. > > That is, this is an issue of technical merit, not arbitrary whim. > So instead of bringing back the obsolete idea of subject-line tags, we > should instead be encouraging (a) all IETF lists *not* to use them, but to > use List-Id et.al. instead (b) all (relevant) mail software providers to > support them and (c) all (relevant) mail server providers to support them. > These mechanisms neatly solve a number of problems, and that better > positions everyone to tackle those that remain. +1 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf