From: Terry Poulin <bigboss64@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T00:45:52+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

Dan Zwell 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
>
>

I usually find my self with 50-200 messages each day in my INBOX from this
mailing list alone. My solution? Is I set my webmail to display messages in
threads and colour code them. So that every message in my inbox from this
mailing lists address is displayed in a Red highlight and neatly organized. It
helps both with seeing that it. 0.) A Ruby-Talk message, 1.) Who said what,
2.) replies and deletes, and 3.) Makes it faster to work through the messages.


The A [Ruby-Talk] prefix would be nice if you use mailx as your primary MUA
but most these days should support decent sorting, filtering, and highlighting
features. And those are much more useful for dealing with Volume then
prefixing the subject lines. On the topic of filtering mails, there is no need
to filter by Subject Line for that -> Just use the other headers.


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TerryP.


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