From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KI7AB-0008FN-Bj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:23:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3A1EE0432; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2842AE0432 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17935 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Jul 2008 19:23:09 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:23:09 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] proper subject lines Message-ID: <20080713192309.GA17928@crowfix.com> References: <875732.34479.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875732.34479.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 78d1e9c1-e695-42b7-9d5f-0da17513d413 X-Archives-Hash: a0066a519f5102104a0719af6275d541 On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:40:08AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > I would like to raise my voice against the use of overly long subject lines that run out of space on the line provided. > > Complete sentences are not necessary. A few, well chosen words should suffice and spare the user the nuisance of opening mail that ultimately is of no value to him. Under what circumstances does too much info hurt? It's not like a PhD thesis, it's just, say, 10 words instead of 2 or 3. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list