From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OK
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080714181415.GA31421@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807141911.05478.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote:
> > Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose?
>
> for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 characters
>
Just to be pedantic:
Remember that the mailing list prepends the list name, so I think it
ought to be
80 - strlen("[gentoo-user] ") = 66 chars.
And if you care about most console mail readers, take mutt for
example, the default install definitely does not use more than half of
the 80 chars screen width for displaying the subject line. So now you
are down to 40 - 14 = 26.
Oh wait, your question may incite a big discussion with 6 levels of
replies:
26 - 6 * strlen("Re: ") = 2.
Ah! I see why someone changed the subject of this thread to just "OK".
;-)
W
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-13 17:40 [gentoo-user] proper subject lines maxim wexler
2008-07-13 18:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-13 18:44 ` Dale
2008-07-13 20:17 ` b.n.
2008-07-15 18:13 ` maxim wexler
2008-07-13 19:23 ` felix
2008-07-13 19:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-13 20:18 ` [gentoo-user] OK Mick
2008-07-13 21:36 ` [gentoo-user] Re: K Chris Walters
2008-07-14 17:11 ` [gentoo-user] OK Alan McKinnon
2008-07-14 18:14 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2008-07-20 16:54 ` [gentoo-user] proper subject lines Mick
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