[Adium-devl] [ANN] libpurple-mini

Ka-Hing Cheung khc at hxbc.us
Sun Sep 14 17:05:52 EDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:53 -0700, Peter Hosey wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2008, at 13:49:34, Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:
> > Could you please not tag your subject line with [ANN] every time?
> 
> He's not doing it every time, he's doing it on each announcement. (See  
> his “personal message != status message” thread, for example. That  
> wasn't an announcement, so it had no [ANN] tag.)
> 
> The idea is that anyone who only wants to read discussion, and not  
> announcements, can ignore or delete any message with an [ANN] tag.  
> It's being polite.

Hmm, I've always thought of it as AtteNtioN :-) Even if that's not what
it stands for, that's certainly what it attreived on me. While some of
the emails may be interesting, it's just annoying that those ALL CAPS
stand out so much.

-khc





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