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this is my very first post...hello everybody. I've been enjoying the almost-entirely-friendly slant of this list (Miko aside) and I don't understand this tone, it's a fairly simple request. Here's the problem; if you need to check email remotely with a browser-based client (or from most hand-held Blackberry-type devices) , you can't use filters. This is the only group I'm a part of, or have ever been a part of, that doesn't have a prefix, and it makes it inconvenient, even though I use complex filters all the time on my home PC. Daryl Shawn highhorse@mhorse.com > an anti-logo thing? that doesn't seem like me. > > no, you are not going to like hearing this, but it is an anti-moron >thing. > > Mailing lists have been running on the internet for probably 20 years or > more. It used to be that no lists had idiot features like prefixes added >on > the subject line. That is because it used to be that most of the people > using the internet were at least bright enough to figure out how to use > their email program, and could set up filters to do what they wanted with > their email. There was no need for such nonsense. > > In the past few years, just about everybody got on the internet, >including > all the stupid people. Since the stupid users turned out to be either too > dumb or too lazy to create email filters, plus they whine a lot, many >list > owners gave in and added all sorts of extra crap to their lists to help >the > morons continue to be morons. > > However, I find within myself a strong aversion to being a >moron-enabler. I > rather believe that people getting forced to learn something might end up > being better for it. I also don't see why I should do a lot of extra work > to add a feature that everybody already has the ability to do with their > mail program. If this causes a few morons get frustrated and leave the >list > (assuming they can figure out how to do that), that doesn't really seem > like a bad thing to me. > > kim > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com