[LEDE-DEV] List Prefix

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 13:23 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Basically the only people for whom your claim "it's easy to add" is
> actually true is people for whom it's not *that* much harder to
> remove what they don't want.

In practice though, what happens is the more technically advanced users
tend to just pay less attention to lists which have it — both because
of the actual noise itself, and because there is also a correlation
between lists having the tag, and a lower signal:noise ratio of the
general content. It's almost a subconscious thing.

It's like top-posting — there is a *correlation* between it, and
general cluelessness in what the person is trying to say anyway. So one
is just less inclined to read an email when it's top-posted. Or HTML.
And one is less inclined to spend time looking at a mailing list which
obscures its messages with redundant information in the list tags.

-- 
dwmw2

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