From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T12:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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.
>
If you're talking about Thunderbird pressing 'L' (either directly or due 
to some extension that I may have installed) does expand the message 
list to cover the full window (hiding the folders panes) giving a lot of 
extra space for your messages and the 12 columns to be visible - and 
with wide screens, the situation gets better still :)

Cheers,
Mohit.
9/4/2007 | 11:19 AM.