On 3 Apr 2001, at 15:51, Jonathan Wilson wrote: ....
I personally think that using tags (such as the often-used [OT] one for off-topic posts, as well as [WAS] and [SOLVED]) helps a lot, especially if you're consistent with your tagging methodology. Perhaps others don't like it...I think it works great though, because it allows you to set up your filters in a more organised way.
Perhaps we should vote on standard tags? After all this is open source isn't it? :-)
[OT] off topic
[SOLVED] means those who are looking for people to help don't need to continue reading that thread
[WAS] topic switch. Not sure of it's value for this situation.
Perhaps we should start using categories like:
[SOUND] sound related problems [YAST] trouble with YaST [INSTALL] trouble installing [SCRIPT] shell scripts [CRON] cron.. [KDE] KDE related problems [APACHE] help needed with apache. and so on... [POSTFIX] [SENDMAIL] [PROFTPD] ......
The trouble is you can end up with long cryptic subjects (see this one which I left untrimmed on purpose). This being the case I'd suggest keeping the tags as short as is consistent with clarity - [SENDMAIL] is 10 characters. I'm not too sure about wrapping in [] as that's 2 chars! How about SND-sound YST-YaST INST-installation SCPT-scripting APCH-Apache PFIX-postfix SML-sendmail GNM-gnome Sort of like the ticker tags they use on nasdaq. I'd also be pleased to see less multiplication of "Re:" and [SLE] in the subject. We should be trimming the subject, please :-) regards, Bill