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

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:19:57AM +0900, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:41:53AM +0900, Dan Zwell wrote:
> >> >
> >> 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?
> > 
> > Thoughts:
> > 
> > Not everyone filters ruby-talk into its own "folder" in a mail user
> > agent.  Some of us prefer to have all incoming email appear in the same
> > inbox list, but want to be able to filter by eye.
> > 
> > Considering even the typical CLI-only terminal has an 80-character 
> > width,
> > I don't see how six characters is such a deal-breaker.  There's 
> > something
> > wrong if people are sending 70+ character subject lines, anyway.
> 
> And your client of choice doesn't support rewriting the subject as a 
> filter?

. . . and you wouldn't complain if all my responses contained [RUBY] in
the subject line?

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