From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 18:42:13 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Nevertheless, I still think that having agents reading subject headers
> in order to institute some semantic action is a Bad Thing, and USEAGE
> says as much. With hindsight, that is true or "Re: " as well.
Given the amount of existing software that already does this for its own
purposes without any trouble, I think this would, if put in a standard,
just make people laugh at the standard. See, again, trouble ticketing
systems, or for that matter, robomoderation policies based on subject
keywords.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>