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 1KI6Z3-0005NL-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:44:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9695CE03F3; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost04.isp.att.net (fmailhost04.isp.att.net [207.115.11.54]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E17E03F3 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.71.75] (host-216-78-71-75.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.71.75]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc04) with ESMTP id <20080713184449H040096739e>; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:44:49 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.71.75] Message-ID: <487A4D1F.9050806@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:44:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080705 SeaMonkey/1.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] proper subject lines References: <875732.34479.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200807132032.04963.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200807132032.04963.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a5a0b79a-5cc8-4e3c-a812-8f14873282f6 X-Archives-Hash: a096f3a68b1779080c5723703f2b7b73 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > >> Hi group, >> >> I would like to raise my voice against the use of overly long subject lines >> that run out of space on the line provided. >> > > what is 'overly long' and what space are you talking about? > > >> 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. >> > > so you are opening mails if the subject is a sentence no matter what the > sentence is telling you? > > I prefer as much info as possible myself. Sometimes the subject can be one thing but because there is little info in it, it turns out to be something else. Of course, a error message can be really nice too. It's good if you are searching for the error you are having. I would rather have a long one than a short one with not enough info to know whether I can help or not. Of course, the one for this is short but doesn't mention anything about others being to long. I was hoping to see someone suggesting that people should have better than "need help" or something. Maybe it should have been " can we have shorter subject lines please" or something like that. Of course, that means it is longer. LOL I also wish the forum subject lines could be longer and have a special spot for "solved" as well. That is their problem tho. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list