[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Sun Jul 17 03:45:46 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-12 07:33, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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

Or drop the subject munging entirely!  That's all totally wasted space.
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