[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: missing-sync-palmos-talk Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 6/6/06 7:19 AM, "Jonathan Lundell" <jlundell at pobox.com> wrote:

> At 9:22 AM -0400 6/6/06, Patricia Warwick wrote:
>> Personally I count on this format of the subject line for a rule
>> which move all messages for this list to a folder. Otherwise they
>> might be classified as junk.
>> On 5-Jun-06, at 10:55 PM, Jan C. wrote:
> 
> I filter based on the To line (which also works for outgoing
> messages). But the point isn't whether there should be an identifying
> subject tag, it's whether it needs to be so long.
> 
>>> Why must all messages start with "[missing-sync-palmos-talk]"?  It is very
>>> annoying not to be able to see the subject in the list.

Right. "[msp]" would do just as well for identification purposes.

What people on some email clients - where message lists can stretch out to
the full width of the window/screen and messages are either opened into
their own window or are viewed below - is that on other email clients such
as Entourage 2004 the preferred "3-column" display has the message on the
right, with message lists in a rather narrow column in the middle. (The list
column has two lines for displaying minimal headers - the sender's name
above and the message subject below.) Even on my 23" display, I keep that
middle column at just about 3" wide. Typically an msp subject gets truncated
like this:

    Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: missing...

Useless. On my 15" PowerBook it's more like this:

    Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk]...

Every single message subject looks like that. You cannot tell one apart from
the other. It's got to be even worse on a 12" iBook or 13" MacBook.
(Probably bad enough to force me not to use this preferred "3-column"
display at all, as I recall from when I had an iBook. But for a 15" screen,
the "3-column" display works just fine for all messages except ones from
mailing lists like mspt - which is the worst of all.

Just something to keep in mind...

-- 
Paul Berkowitz