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Re: Subject Namimg Convention anyone?
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Peter S Galbraith |
Subject: |
Re: Subject Namimg Convention anyone? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 May 2004 12:12:36 -0400 |
Mark Elston <address@hidden> wrote:
> OK. I'm starting to get annoyed with the SPAM starting to show up in
> this newsgroup. Since this is an unmoderated group could we all agree
> to use a naming convention for posting to allow us to easily weed out
> the wheat from the chaff?
>
> Perhaps something like [SRC] at the beginning of the Subject for
> source postings and [DISC] for discussions/questions/etc?
Please don't. I hate those tags.
> That would
> put relevant posts at the top of the list in most newsreaders and we
> can easily select and delete all other posts. Or we could filter out
> all posts that don't begin with the agreed strings.
I read it as a maling list, and it's maintainers could certainly filter
SPAM before it gets redistributed. That would be a better solution,
since we wouldn't see the spam to begin with.
Peter