No Subject Prefix for list

Doug Jones djsdl at frombob.to
Mon Dec 24 13:18:15 EST 2007


Larry J. Maltin wrote:
> How about "XO-Help"?
> 


+1


even shorter:

[XOhelp]

not going to be confused with any other list I can think of.


There are plenty of people who never figured out how to set up a message 
filter on List-Id, and still do this manually.

I suspect we will see a lot more of them on this list, and a lot more 
overall volume, soon.  This list will drown them.



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> Larry Maltin                                       
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> Michael Burns wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 2007 6:09 AM, Larry J. Maltin <lmaltin at suffolk.lib.ny.us 
>> <mailto:lmaltin at suffolk.lib.ny.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     I prefer the prefix because it tells me what list is "responding."
>>
>>
>> Thoughts on a sufficiently short prefix? even [olpc-help] seems long.
>>
>> My main gripe is that the 'recent post' sidebar is limited by a number 
>> of characters for each subject. With "[olpc-community-support]" you 
>> don't have much room for the actual subject.
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Burns * Student
>> Open Source {Education} Lab
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