[Secure-testing-team] Long, long, long tag

[Andrew Pollock]

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