On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Norbert Crettol wrote: > > First thank you for your great job and for this mailing-list. > > > > I've just a remark : the tag prepended to the message > > subject is far too long. Including the DTSA numter it > > is near 40 chars long. When one looks at his filtered > > mailbox, it cannot see the most significative and > > informative part : which package and what is the problem. > > In the middle of hundreds of email messages, it is > > important to get the information in an eye blink. "Do I > > have to take action immediately or will I come back on > > it later ?" How can I decide when I see : > > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-14-1] New mozilla pa... > > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-15-1] New php4 packa... > > > > You could shorten the tag to [secure-testing] or > > [SecureTesting] (one less ;-) or even [TestingSec]. The > > tag is used mainly for filtering by most users, I suppose. > > They don't need a full novel to understand where the message > > comes from. > > Shall I remove the tags? I still read this mailing list unfiltered in my > inbox, but I do have procmail.. >
I think for the announce list you can probably get away with removing the list tag, or maybe shortening to [TESTING-SECURITY] (that's similar to how the stable DSAs go out isn't it?) regards Andrew _______________________________________________ Secure-testing-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-team
