Hi all,
yes, I'm definitely in favor of 'carpentry', or Henry's suggestion
of 'carpsdisc', or anything that is 'carpentry' or 'carpentries' related,
rather than the completely generic 'discuss', which doesn't really
tell you anything about the content.
Thanks,
Horst
Bennet Fauber <ben...@umich.edu> wrote:
> It's very 'pre merge', but the old three-letter acronym 'SWC' was
> fairly unique, fairly informative, and fairly short. Would it be out
> of court to suggest resuscitating that for this purpose?
>
> One other possibility would be to simply replace 'discuss' with 'carpentry'?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:28 AM Henry Neeman (please use my OU email
> address) <hnee...@ou.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I agree that "Carpentries" is too long and "discuss" is too vague.
> >
> >
> > How about something like this?
> >
> >
> > carpsdisc
> >
> >
> > That's 2 characters longer than "discuss" and would be
> > opaque to a non-Carpentries person, but would presumably
> > be easily understood by someone on this mailing list,
> > at least after the first few e-mails they got.
> >
> >
> > Henry Neeman (hnee...@ou.edu)
> >
> >
> > ----------
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:16 AM Purwanto, Wirawan <wpurw...@odu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Kevin, this is just my opinion:: one reason not to add
> >> ???Carpentries??? in the subject line is to avoid making the prefix too
> >> long. Then we couldn???t easily see what???s the discussion about if we
> >> are skimming thru the emails by the subject line. Especially on small
> >> devices like phones. Many mailers are smart enough to sort out mails to
> >> different folders based on the destination (which can be helpful to
> >> maximize focus) ??? the discuss mails always have
> >> discuss@lists.carpentries.org destination address. Perhaps for mailers to
> >> be smarter in giving visual cues, like colors (ok for those not
> >> colorblind), or tiny icons.
> >>
> >> Wirawan
> >>
> >> From: "Strong, Dena L" <dlstr...@illinois.edu>
> >> Reply-To: discuss <discuss@lists.carpentries.org>
> >> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 9:09 AM
> >> To: discuss <discuss@lists.carpentries.org>
> >> Subject: RE: [discuss] <== Mailing list prefix label for the Carpentries'
> >> discuss list
> >>
> >> In my mail client, that would only leave about 10 letters of the actual
> >> topic visible in the left preview pane. Is there anything shorter than the
> >> word Carpentries that could be used?
> >>
> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >>
> >> From: Kevin Buckley
> >> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 8:21 PM
> >> To: 'discuss@lists.carpentries.org'
> >> Subject: [discuss] <== Mailing list prefix label for the Carpentries'
> >> discuss list
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> just re-subscribed to "The Carpentries: discuss" list, having realised I'd
> >> left myself subscribed at an address associated with my previous job, and
> >> so it's just dawned on me that, when viewed in a list of Subject lines,
> >> the Carpentries' discuss list emails just show as, eg:
> >>
> >> [discuss] Post-workshop eval questions related to online delivery?
> >>
> >> and so I was wondering if there was any reason why the mailing list
> >> prefix label couldn't explictly mention the Carpentries?
> >>
> >> Perhaps
> >>
> >> [Carpentries discuss] Post-workshop eval questions related to online
> >> delivery?
> >>
> >> or similar would serve to add some context.
> >>
> >> As things stand, it's akin to a mailing list equivalent of supplying
> >> a phone number in an email sig, but without the country code.
> >>
> >
> > The Carpentries / discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery
> > options Permalink
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