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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
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Andrew J. Korty <ajk@iu.edu> wrote:

> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm purely a user, but I would not be in favour of splitting the list.
> > I find it interesting to have an insight into what the developers are
> > doing, where org is headed.  Use of a DEV tag would be good.
> 
> I don't understand.  If you like to read the development posts, why not
> subscribe to both lists?  My concerns with a DEV tag are twofold: people
> would forget to add it, and it clutters the subject line.
> 

Agreed.

> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The thing that is most difficult for me is the fact that I almost
> > never can read the entire subject header.  Often I get to read only
> > the first word.  Tags will make that worse.
> 
> It was suggested once that we shorten the [Orgmode] tag to [Org].  That
> seems like a change everyone can agree with.  Could one of the mailing
> list admins please make that change?
> 

Agreed - even though I was probably the most vocal opponent of dropping the
tag altogether, I have no problem with making it shorter.

[Org] looks fine for the current list and if the dev list comes to pass
it could perhaps get an [OrgD] tag (or even [OD]: overdosing on org is a
good thing...)

Thanks,
Nick