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[Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Curtis Hovey
<curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:46 -0500, Benji York wrote:
>> > I think this is a policy change.
>>
>> Can you unpack the above a bit?  I don't understand the significance
>> of
>> the statement.
>>
>> My current interpretation is that we have an explicit policy of not
>> providing List-ID and this would change that, but in reading the
>> linked
>> bugs I saw evidence that my interpretation was incorrect.
>>
>> A slight tangent: another advantage of List-ID is that Gmail's "Filter
>> messages like this" feature works well with them.
>
> Bugs comments, merge proposals, and questions are not lists. We have
> mailing lists and we have rejected implying these Lp artefacts are
> lists. We commonly argue that that gmail is broken, not Launchpad. The
> counter argument is that Gmail is large enough to define standards and
> we know Lp users prefer gmail.

Ah, that's quite clarifying.

> We just need to set
> expectations, that is to say, may it clear how it behaves like a list.
> Users should not be sending unsubscribe emails to the launchpad bug
> subscription if Lp does not support it.

A very good point.  Thanks.
-- 
Benji York