[scribus] wasted space

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

* mike <wmichaeltrout at yahoo.com> [2008-08-12 03:11:07 -0700]:

> just a suggestion for the moderator.  much as i like scribus, it's sometimes
> a chore to open up my scribus listmail.  i imagine it is similar for other
> folks sometimes.  my suggestion is that you use the subject heading to
> 'advertise' the contents of either the digest, or individual mails,
> depending on how they are sent out.  i receive the digest, and as i already
> see the sender is scribus, i would benefit more from a content description
> snippet in the subject line, and it would serve to grab my eye, especially
> when it might have to do with an interesting problem or fix.  i used to
> pride myself on being quite articulate; now i'm never sure if i can
> formulate understandable concepts.  did this make any sense?  :)

Mike,

List server passes on the subjects that the authors of the emails use. It just
adds "[scribus]" to them. I'm not sure what you mean by "advertising" the
content. Anyone would be hard-pressed to create software that would select a
terse representation of the meaning of an email from its body. It's best left
to human brains. I suppose the problem is that people reuse the subjects
without thinking if that's appropriate. That is a problem that appears time
and again on every list I use. All you can do is ask people politely to choose
better subjects.

Cheers,

Alex.