On 10/30/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:58 +0100, Oliver Betz wrote:
> > > > But tags in the Subject: line are ugly.
>
> > I dislike them strongly because they consume valuable space in the
> > Subject: column.
>
> Another data point: I like them strongly because they are often
> the most significant part of the subject line.
>
> > Since I read many mailing lists and newsgroups with hundreds of mails
> > and postings each day, I depend on meaningful subjects.
>
> And the users sending the messages often fail to qualify the subject
> lines with the actual topic of the list - and without knowing it the
> line is not meaningful.
>
> > Even a three letter tag plus brackets plus space consumes six
> > characters.
>
> I don't recall _ever_ seeing a complaint about the list mechanisms
> on lists that do add a subject tag or ones that force a reply-to
> to the list. I think every one of the several lists I use that don't
> do these things have had regular user complaints about the problems
> they have with the mechanism.
I however went so far as to create and submit a patch for Trac not to
include the project name as a prefix in the Subject line. Complaining
about list mechanisms usually is futile anyway, but I can at least try
to get the ones I manage right...
bye,
Erik.
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Received on Mon Oct 30 18:42:38 2006