Re: [orca-list] Why? Was: Why ?

[Krister Ekstrom <krister kristersplace ws>]

Personally i don't mind having the new prefix, and i can't really
understand why we fuzz about it. But that's me.
/Krister


Rich Burridge wrote:
> Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:00:10PM EST, Hermann wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi,
> > > the subject almost tells the story: You've added a prefix, why? In the
> > > subject there used to be the word "Orca", and in my view that's enugh.
> > > I don't like to hear always that "[Orca-list]". How do others think about
> > > it?
> > >     
> > Personally, I prefer no prefix in subject lines, as mailman lists 
> > provide useful headers to allow me to filter my mail, and its one more 
> > thing that has to be read however I do understand why others prefer to 
> > have a prefix, and not just for filtering reasons.
> >   
>
> I suggested to Will that it should be changed to something like "[orca]" 
> or "Orca list:"
> because I would occasionally see subject lines like "Orca orca ate my 
> homework",
> and thought it might be a tad confusing to blind users just using speech.
>
> Personally I like the ability to sort by Subject so that all the Orca 
> messages are
> right together and I can read them easily. I realize I could easily 
> achieve the
> same with filtering.
>
> But this is a democratic list. Or at least it was the last time I 
> checked. So...
> I throw it open to the list and we'll go with the majority.
>
> Votes so far:
>
> Hermann - just "Orca".
> Luke - nothing at all:
> Rich - "[orca-list]"
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS: Note that we've also added:
>
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
>
> at the bottom of each message. This is to encourage Orca users to check
> out the Orca wiki first, to see if their question has been answered there.
>
>
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