[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On 2011-07-09 14:20, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> Nikola M wrote:
>>> I would like to propose shorter subjects in the mailing lists.
>>> (Caiman-team,G11n-team,Jds-team,Sfw-team, rest are Ok I think)
>> PLEASE
>> Consider shortening Subject lines for Mailing list subjects.
>> PLEASE.
>
> Most of us use GUI-based email readers that handle>80char subjects. Is this really an issue?

For me, in Thunderbird, the subject is squeezed into about a sixth of 
the Thunderbird window, which is about half my screen width.  So, in 
fact, "Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync" is 
within a few characters of the max that will show without being truncated.

And I have a 26" wide-screen monitor for photoshop work; most people 
have smaller displays.

It's in the message list that the subject line is important, of course; 
where I use it to find things, and such.  The fact that the whole thing 
shows on the current message in the preview window doesn't really matter 
much.

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