Re: Mailing list (was: Re: Q: Threads in GHC's RTS)

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Barbara Nostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,

> The reason to add something like HASKELL: to the beginning of subject lines
> is that it makes it easier for humans to scan in boxes for Haskell related
> stuff. Granted, I can generally tell when a message relates to Haskell, but
> I subscribe to a number of mailing lists where the identity of the mailing
> list is not otherwise immediately apparent from either the sender or the
> subject lines which appear in the in box directory.

True, I agree that a mailing-list tag is quite useful for
scanning through mail headers.  But please make it short.
Maybe just GHC: or so.  Some mail readers have a summary
mode that shows only some 20 characters of the subject line.

Manuel