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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski@pippiandcarlos.com>,
	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs] request: better subject lines
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 08:52:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d009f255-a466-185c-48c5-6eb31f4adbf8@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lx5dhwd.fsf@pippiandcarlos.com>

On 04/30/2017 11:39 AM, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> If you're like me, you get a whole lot of spam. You need to scan the
> subject lines in your INBOX to decide what's spam and what's ham. If you
> have to open an email to decide because the subject line is
> inconclusive, that's bad.
>
> The subject lines for this mailing list need to have a [thing] injected
> so that it's obvious that it is email for this list. Note my example in
> the subject line of this email. Please?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Carlos Konstanski
>

I agree.  I'm much less likely to delete without reading those emails 
which follow your suggestion.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-30 15:39 [GNU-Emacs] request: better subject lines Carlos Konstanski
2017-04-30 16:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-04-30 17:15 ` allan gottlieb
2017-05-01  3:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-02 12:52 ` ken [this message]
2017-05-02 13:41   ` [Emacs] " tomas
2017-05-02 15:12     ` Danny YUE
2017-05-03  8:49       ` tomas
2017-05-03  9:49         ` Danny YUE
2017-05-03 10:26           ` tomas
2017-05-02 17:05     ` ken
2017-05-02 17:32       ` hector
2017-05-02 18:38       ` Bob Proulx
2017-05-03  8:56         ` tomas
2017-05-02 14:34   ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-02 19:04     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-02 20:43 ` [GNU-Emacs] " Bob Proulx
2017-05-03  0:57   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-03  5:10     ` Bob Proulx
2017-05-03 12:38       ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-05-03 20:12       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-03 23:25         ` Nick Dokos
2017-05-04  1:34           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-04 17:02             ` Nick Dokos
2017-05-04 18:29               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-04  5:26         ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-05-04  6:55           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-04  6:59           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-04  2:01       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-03  2:34   ` allan gottlieb
2017-05-04 15:40     ` Emanuel Berg

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