[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 23:00 -0700, 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. 
> 
> My suggestion would be to use just "oi" for the general discussion list
> and leave hyphen whatever for more specialized lists, e.g. oi-dev,
> oi-bugs, etc.

seems reasonable to me.