[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

Gregory Youngblood gregory at youngblood.me
Tue Jul 12 06:00:53 UTC 2011


On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:

>> On 2011-07-09 14:20, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>>> Most of us use GUI-based email readers that handle>80char subjects. Is
>>> this really an issue?
> 
> Yes, it is really an issue.  Trying to make sense of mailing list
> subjects on my phone, for instance, is a bit tiresome.

I have my mail app on half my screen and with my current setup the subject I see is "Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter su..."

My suggestion is to change the subject prefix in the list software from "[OpenIndiana-discuss]" to "[oi-disc]" and that will reclaim a lot of subject line real estate all by itself. 




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