From: Russell Norris <rsl@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T08:49:29+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

for what it's worth, if you can filter yr emails by the "to" field,
they're all addressed to ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org and can be grouped
quite easily. at least via gmail for me. :)

RSL

On 9/2/07, Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Devi Web Development wrote:
> > I don't know who would make this sort of decision, but could we put
> > [RubyTalk] or [Ruby] or something at the beginning of all messages? It's a
> > fairly common practice on listserves.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
> > Devi Web Development
> > Devi.WebMaster@gMail.com
> >
>
> Quoting http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/#s3-19 :
>
>      It would increase the size of the Subject: line. This is a problem,
> as it limits the amount of useful information that can be seen in the
> Subject: line, making it harder to scan through a list of subject lines
> looking for interesting subjects.
>
> Mail can easily be filtered based on the "To:" line. This list has too
> much volume not to be filtered (probably by everyone that uses it), so I
> don't see an advantage to adding [Ruby]. Further, I don't want to give
> up even six (really seven) characters that we can use to express
> ourselves. Thoughts?
>
> Dan
>
>