The change to the mailing list is a great idea. It looks like the idea of
adding "[unicode]" to the subject line is to make it easier to filter
messages. I move mine to a unicode subdirectory because this is such a
prolific mail list it is a good idea not to mix the messages with my regular
mail. I presume that most people do the same.
Before I had to look at the sender to see if it had unicode.org. That seems
to work fine but now I have another way. Just look at the subject line.
Now when people reply privately to me so that they do not clutter up the
mailing list with messages that are probably not of general interest the
will still have the [unicode] string in the subject. If I use the new
filter I can now assume that they are general list messages and can be
properly ignored. I guess I will have to erase the "[unicode]" string from
the subject line if I really want to get someone's attention.
The second feature is (This is not a bug it is a feature) that my list of
messages now only shows 60% of the heading:
[unicode]Re: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
I now find my self reading messages that I might have otherwise skipped. I
am learning lots of good stuff that would have passed me by.
This brings to mind the expression that there is no one stupid enough that
you can not learn something from them. I have to thank the cretin who
requested this feature for improving my life.
Thanks,
Carl
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