[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Jul 12 12:33:53 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:00 PM, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> 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.
>

+1



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