From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T03:41:17+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

James Edward Gray II wrote:

> Do you also show the sender and the date received on that line?  I think 
> you'll find that most MUA setups give far less than 80 subject 
> characters by default.  Mine sure does, and it's not a terminal 
> application.

Yup. In my thunderbird setup, with columns for subject, sender, date, 
size, and some flags, I see only about 45-50 characters of subject. I'd 
lose 12 them to "[RUBY-TALK] ".... I was very glad to see the old 
"[ruby-talk:NNNNN]" go away a few years ago.

The message ID was nice for references, though. I know it's still there 
in the headers, but thunderbird has no option (AFAIK) to display just 
that _one_ additional header field.

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