Hi.
First thank you for your great job and for this mailing-list.
I''ve just a remark : the tag prepended to the message
subject is far too long. Including the DTSA numter it
is near 40 chars long. When one looks at his filtered
mailbox, it cannot see the most significative and
informative part : which package and what is the problem.
In the middle of hundreds of email messages, it is
important to get the information in an eye blink. "Do I
have to take action immediately or will I come back on
it later ?" How can I decide when I see :
[secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-14-1] New mozilla pa...
[secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-15-1] New php4 packa...
You could shorten the tag to [secure-testing] or
[SecureTesting] (one less ;-) or even [TestingSec]. The
tag is used mainly for filtering by most users, I suppose.
They don''t need a full novel to understand where the message
comes from.
Best regards
Norbert
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:> Norbert Crettol wrote: > > First thank you for your great job and for this mailing-list. > > > > I''ve just a remark : the tag prepended to the message > > subject is far too long. Including the DTSA numter it > > is near 40 chars long. When one looks at his filtered > > mailbox, it cannot see the most significative and > > informative part : which package and what is the problem. > > In the middle of hundreds of email messages, it is > > important to get the information in an eye blink. "Do I > > have to take action immediately or will I come back on > > it later ?" How can I decide when I see : > > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-14-1] New mozilla pa... > > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-15-1] New php4 packa... > > > > You could shorten the tag to [secure-testing] or > > [SecureTesting] (one less ;-) or even [TestingSec]. The > > tag is used mainly for filtering by most users, I suppose. > > They don''t need a full novel to understand where the message > > comes from. > > Shall I remove the tags? I still read this mailing list unfiltered in my > inbox, but I do have procmail.. >I think for the announce list you can probably get away with removing the list tag, or maybe shortening to [TESTING-SECURITY] (that''s similar to how the stable DSAs go out isn''t it?) regards Andrew
Norbert Crettol wrote:> First thank you for your great job and for this mailing-list. > > I''ve just a remark : the tag prepended to the message > subject is far too long. Including the DTSA numter it > is near 40 chars long. When one looks at his filtered > mailbox, it cannot see the most significative and > informative part : which package and what is the problem. > In the middle of hundreds of email messages, it is > important to get the information in an eye blink. "Do I > have to take action immediately or will I come back on > it later ?" How can I decide when I see : > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-14-1] New mozilla pa... > [secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-15-1] New php4 packa... > > You could shorten the tag to [secure-testing] or > [SecureTesting] (one less ;-) or even [TestingSec]. The > tag is used mainly for filtering by most users, I suppose. > They don''t need a full novel to understand where the message > comes from.Shall I remove the tags? I still read this mailing list unfiltered in my inbox, but I do have procmail.. -- see shy jo -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-team/attachments/20050914/30888967/attachment.pgp
Andrew Pollock wrote:> I think for the announce list you can probably get away with removing the > list tag, or maybe shortening to [TESTING-SECURITY] (that''s similar to how > the stable DSAs go out isn''t it?)They use [SECURITY], which seems reasonable here too (the DTSA number disambiguates). -- see shy jo -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-team/attachments/20050914/82336657/attachment.pgp