I object to the prepending. I have a small monitor and bad eyes. I have 800 pixels of horizontal space and every pixel counts. The [SA] uses five characters' worth of vertical space of the Subject tag, which means I see that much less of the subject.
This is not academic. There's already the wasted RE:/FW:/ stuff to deal with. This all adds up. "RE: [SATalk] " is thirteen characters (counting the trailing space). Counting spaced used by the trailing "..." that Outlook throws in, I have about 20-25 characters' worth of usable Subject: width - using up half of that with a prefix is a waste. I subscribe to many lists and use the List-Id: header to filter them into different folders when I can. To/Cc recipient filtering works for the rest. Postpending would be fine with me. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:00 PM > To: Tom Meunier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Subject tag poll results > > > > That assumes somebody didn't use 'How do I stop Job Jobbing' > as a subject > line. You should be grepping the subject line not sorting it > - and having > an [SA] tag won't interfere with a grep. > > > At 12:20 PM 2/6/2004, Tom Meunier wrote: > >Without a tag, it's fully alphabetic. So the other day when I was > >looking for thread "Joe Jobbing countermeasures" in a > Postfix discussion > >list, I sorted the 40,000 messages by subject, hit the [J] key, and I > >was there. Rather than having to scroll through looking for > >[Postfix-Users]Joe Jobbing. > > > >That's why I like it. I can't do that with lists that > prepend a [tag]. > >Besides, I subscribe public folders to most lists, and the > others I just > >make the rules by TO: or CC: and they *always* work. And I > can go into > >a folder with 50k messages and jump to the thread I want in > <2 seconds. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:29 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Subject tag poll results > > > > > >I really don't understand why anyone would object to adding > [SA] to the > >beginning of the subject line. > > Best Regards, > > Jeff Koch, Intersessions > >
