[OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

[Sriram Narayanan]

Just [oi] sounds good - it'll let us identify mails visually, though
having said that, I now wonder how important that is.

On Gmail on my Blackberry, I'm able to see the entire subject line,
but my responses come through as top-posts :(

-- Sriram

On 7/13/11, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> 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.
>
>
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> Regards-- Ken Gunderson
>
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