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 1KISYo-0007AF-MM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:14:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C623E062D; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02957E062D for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6EIE4NG013054 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m6EIDrm1011278 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C2443D372F; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:15 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OK Message-ID: <20080714181415.GA31421@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <875732.34479.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080713192309.GA17928@crowfix.com> <200807132118.21261.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200807141911.05478.alan.mckinnon@gmail.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: <200807141911.05478.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 9ddd523b-d175-4086-97ca-993cf31a5802 X-Archives-Hash: 0b8f8de1f3546147a249ec7147e185ae 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 -- Pillage before you burn. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 584 days, 16:39 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list