[Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Metro
A few recent Perl Jobs postings had subject lines like: [Perl Jobs] US-NY-NYC: Mod_Perl/Linux/Unix/SQL Developers (onsite), United States, NY, New York and before I looked at them more closely and realized that they all came from the same company, I wondered if the formatting of the subject

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Tom Metro wrote: and before I looked at them more closely and realized that they all came from the same company, I wondered if the formatting of the subject line had changed for the better. Apparently not, so I'd like to propose a format change. The above subjec

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Metro
Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: [Perl Jobs] (onsite) US-NY-NYC, Mod_Perl/Linux/Unix/SQL Developers We don't have the location information in a data format structured enough to do that. (How do you shorten region names in say Spain. Do they even use region names? How do you shorten Podunkville?

RE: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread James Moore
I'd agree with location information being far more important than titles, and it's pretty annoying that the location is off to the right (and truncated more often than not in my email viewer). The actual format of the location information doesn't really matter to me; just being the first thing in

RE: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 12/6/05 at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Moore) wrote: > Special-casing the US is probably wrong; this is a fairly > international list. Well, it is a *little* lopsided :-) Jobs per Country United States 2302 United Kingdom 305 India 160 Canada 159 Australia 78 Germany 30 The

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread José Castro
* Tom Metro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I could also see an argument for eliminating the locality (city/town) > portion from the subject line. Personally, I find that one of the most important piece of information here... -- Jose Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://jose-castro.org/

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Andrew Brosnan wrote: Special-casing the US is probably wrong; this is a fairly international list. Well, it is a *little* lopsided :-) Jobs per Country United States 2302 United Kingdom 305 [...] Well, the idea is to encourage posters from other countries.

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Metro
James Moore wrote: I'd agree with location information being far more important than titles... ... The actual format of the location information doesn't really matter to me; just being the first thing in the mail subject would be a huge improvement. ... Special-casing the US is probably wrong...