Re: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?
From: Chris Green <chris areti co uk>
To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:21:46 +0000
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> >It also wastes a considerable amount of the space which is otherwise
> >dedicated to the actual subject.
> >
> >
> Hmmm, do you really think that [dia] would really be an amount in the
> subject line to think about?
>
[dia] is quite short, yes, but as a general solution to the problem I
don't personally think it's a good idea. On some other lists I
subscribe to which have much longer names it often obscures much of
the subject for me.
> Just wanted to mention that a lot of other mailing lists doing it that
> way, so it might be a good common practice.
>
The fact that lots of people do something doesn't necessarily make it
right! :-)
--
Chris Green (chris areti co uk)
"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."