questions about our mailinglists

Dustin Knie nullpuppy at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 19:12:19 CEST 2008


> FWIW I prefer the mailing list subject lines as they are.
>
> [openmoko-users] preppended to the subject line just adds clutter and
> reduces the useful description of the subject that can be used in
> that line. Only so much fits in the list of messages in the mail-
> client's window and [openmoko-users] isn't as useful as "Bug with
> libfoo.so.1 and SMS sent from Nokia 800. Endianness problem?"
>
> Prefixing [openmoko-users] or whatever can cause quite a bit of mess
> if messages are cross-posted between lists or redirected from one
> list to the other ("this shouldn't be on -dev, so I'm replying to -
> users").
>

I'm of the same feeling.  Using GMail for lists and setting up rules to
auto-label incoming mail removes the need for that entirely, and would
further clutter up stuff. It's a annoying to see openmoko-community
[openmoko-community] Subject ...

Just my 2 cents.

Dustin
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