From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T03:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:23:02AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:41:33AM +0900, Phil wrote:
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> >>>
> >>>It used to.  But many claimed it's uncommon and inconvenient in the
> >>>English speaking community, so we abandoned long ago.  If you start
> >>>discussion, and people accept the change, we'd love to make it back.
> >>>But we'd have to coordinate with list-news gateway at least, when we
> >>>change.
> >>
> >>I'm for it. It largely irritates me if there is no "tag" in the  
> >>subject
> >>line, since I have to parse the email more thoroughly to screen my  
> >>messages.
> >
> >Ditto, a lot.
> >
> >In other words, I'm also in favor of adding something like [RUBY- 
> >TALK] to
> >the subject line on the mailing list.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's not what Matz was talking about.  The messages  
> use to contain an id number in the header.  This makes it easy to  
> reference old posts.
> 
> I'm fine with the old ids, but I seriously hope we never add  
> something like [RUBY-TALK].  That pushes the subject to the right,  
> hiding valuable information and it's not needed in filtering, as many  
> have pointed out.  That makes it a lose, lose change in my book.

A message ID number would be similarly clearly identifying for me, as no
other lists to which I'm currently subscribed provide an ID number in the
subject line -- so, from where I'm sitting, it'd achieve much the same
thing (in addition to giving us easier archive searching).  So -- fine,
that works too.

I find it simply mind-boggling that people are so upset about a few
characters being "lost" for subject lines.  How often do you send emails
with 70+ character length subject lines?  How often do you feel dumb for
having done so?

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