full-disclosure - Remove '' subject prefix

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Message-ID: <20040205112528.GA19767@grok.org.uk>
From: johnc at grok.org.uk (John Cartwright)
Subject: Remove '' subject prefix

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
> Now there's a subject in my message overview that really tells me 
> nothing: '[Full-Disclosure] [RHSA-2004:030-01] Updated ...' (the 
> rest gets cut off because then the sender field begins. I vote 
> for completely removing the '[Full-Disclosure]' subject prefix. I 
> got no response from len@...sys.com so let's see what the 
> subscribers think.
> 
> Bernhard

You should email both myself and Len for this reason, we can't 
both be around all the time.

> If this has not been discussed on full-disclosure you may want to
> do that.

This has been discussed numerous times (see the archives), and the
net result is that we have no intention of changing it, because 
like most other aspects of the list you are free to filter/delete/
change what you want to locally with procmail or similar.

Further comment welcome off-list.

Cheers
- John