I see no bug here. In my experience, it's normal list
practice to simply prefix the subject if the list prefix text is
not already present. Banning other square brackets would, for
example, prevent someone asking in a techie groups about the use
of [a-z] in a regular expression.
Malcolm.
On 07/02/2021 04:06:51,
Christos G. Psarras <christos@...> wrote:
Hi All,
Apparently we are allowing square bracket sets in the
subject line, I was under the impression we didn't. Today i
received this topic in our (unmoderated) ALPS group, group
tag [ALPS]:
[ALPS] [ALPS MD 5000] Try to Print test page ->
got an error #alps #grouphelp #help
YYMV, but I did in initial double-take, and went to check
the group settings to make sure no another admin was
monkeying around, then the message itself and it was sent
like that, which also makes the message display odd as
usually there is not a "group tag" showing:
(I did email the poster and explained to them why they
shouldn't use brackets and instead use a new hashtag, they
can create them)
If Monty Python was performing today, they may had a modern
skit, Ministry of Silly Subjects ... straight out of it, one
can send stuff like this:
[ALPS] [the mountains], or is it? [nah, it's the
printers] ... Got yah!
[grouptag] [GMF] [beta] and [whatever else I can think of]
I'm not sure we should be allowing non-grouptag bracket sets
for the sake of allowing the user to be able to use square
brackets themselves in the subject line, it does dilute the
group subject tag and allows silly mischief at the very
least. Or maybe allow them but not in the beginning of the
subject text.
Cheers,
Christos
