Re: lynx-dev Version hides real subject in mailing list

[Eduardo Chappa L.]

*** David Woolley (address@hidden) wrote on Mar 18, 1999:

:) Here is a small sample of my incoming Lynx mail:
:) 
:)  49  Mar 16 Klaus Weide        (53)   Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #
:)  50  Mar 16 Michael Warner     (50)   Multiple command-line URL's (was: Re
:)N  51  Mar 16 David Combs        (35)   Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #
:)N  52  Mar 16 David Combs        (67)   Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #
:)N  53  Mar 16 David Combs        (63)   Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #
:) 
:) Note that for 4 of these the only visible information in the subject is
:) the name of the latest development version.  Generally I ignore these as
:) the effective subject contains about as much information as the "Problem",
:) or "Bug" subjects that come from newbies.  Note Pegasus Mail truncates 
:) similarly and I think this is true of most other mail readers.  (trn has
:) the best strategy as it breaks the subject in the middle and inserts and
:) ellipsis.)
:) 

I guess by the format you are using pine. If you insist in using pine you
may get around the problem by defining your index-format as follow:

index-format             = STATUS MSGNO DATE FROMORTO SUBJECT(50)

Only the size of the message will be lost and 50 characters will be given to
the size of the subject. If you don't like this format for all your folders,
you may create a new .pinerc file and start pine with the -p switch when
reading your lynx mail.

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html