[django-users] suggestion

[Marcus Mendes]

Hello all,
what about if we put "[django-users]" (or something like this) string
at the begining of subject of our e-mails? It will be more easy to
identify all e-mails tha came from that list.

Thanks.
Marcus

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[James Bennett]

On 10/15/06, Marcus Mendes <mvme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> what about if we put "[django-users]" (or something like this) string
> at the begining of subject of our e-mails? It will be more easy to
> identify all e-mails tha came from that list.

Big -1.

I'm not sure that would really make it any "easier" than it already
is; pretty much every email client supports filtering on arbitrary
bits of the message, so it's extremely simple to set up a filter which
looks for "To: django...@googlegroups.com" and does something
special with it. Some suggestions:

* In most traditional email clients, it's easy enough to set up a
folder, call it "django users", and use a filter to send all mail from
the list into it, by looking for "To: django...@googlegroups.com".
* In Gmail you can apply arbitrary "labels" to messages, so setting
one up for "django users" and using a filter to apply it to all mail
from the list is easy. Again, you just filter on "To:
django...@googlegroups.com".

The alternative of putting the list name in the message subject has
some noteworthy usability drawbacks; the biggest is that it reduces
the portion of the subject line you can see when skimming your inbox
-- sooner or later, the subject line has to be cut off to fit in the
width of the window, and every bit of "helpful" stuff a mailing list
inserts before the actual subject line cuts off a bit of the real
subject that you'd see otherwise. For example, I'm subscribed to a
couple of lists which do this; if I don't run my email window
full-screen, I end up seeing something like this:

[css-d] Need help with
[wsg] Site broken in M

Need help with what? Site broken? Is it in Mozilla? MSIE? Mosaic? If
the lists didn't do this, I *could* be seeing

Need help with floats
Site broken in Mozilla

Since I'm already having my email client filter things sensibly, I
would know which lists they came from regardless of the [list-name]
junk in the subject lines, but because it's in there I can't see
enough of the subject line to make out what the message is about.

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-- George Carlin

[Don Arbow]

On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Marcus Mendes wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> what about if we put "[django-users]" (or something like this) string
> at the begining of subject of our e-mails? It will be more easy to
> identify all e-mails tha came from that list.

Why clutter the subject lines with redundant information, especially
for those with limited space to display sender, subject, and date of
receipt?

Most email programs out there can highlight or filter messages based
on some other field in the message. All emails I receive from this
list are routed to a folder called django-users based on the Reply-To
header. If you're using GMail in a browser, you can filter and label
these messages yourself.

Don

[Marcus Mendes]

Thanks so much Sirs.
I did a filter at my gmail.
Thanks again.
Marcus