Please, please, please, can we not use this stupid [unicode] addition to the
subject line. I agree with all the points that have been made against it so
far. It's redundant, it wastes space and makes it harder to visually find
the message you want in a list.
Because this is such a high-volume list and I don't always read it regularly,
it's important for me to be able to view the messages in a (pseudo-) thread
view. Unfortunately, now I have to go searching for the original message
because it doesn't sort in the same place as the replies - all because of the
addition of [unicode] to the subject line and the resulting (useless)
position of the "Re:".
Surely the purpose of the subject header is to convey the subject of the
message, so why overload it with extra redundant meaning? Why expect good
mail clients to understand this misuse of the subject header?
For the benefit of those who (through misfortune, laziness or just plain bad
software) can't (or won't) sort their mail you have effectively broken my
standards-compliant software.
It wasn't broken, so why "fix" it?
`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~:.,.:'^`~
S e á n Ó S é a g h d h a sean@urania.apana.org.au
To see the essence in the unessential and to see the essence as
unessential means one can never get to the essence, wandering as
one is in the road of wrong intentions. Dhammapada:11
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