[p2pu-dev] Reply by email to notifications, formatting

[Rebecca Kahn]

And although he's too modest to say it - Dirk deserves the beer....

On 14 July 2012 12:11, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hi Stian
>
> This sounds like a good idea! One thing I'm wondering about is the use of
> course name/short name in brackets in the subject line. Eg.
> [chin-shopkeep]. This makes lots of sense to me as a technical person using
> a lot of mailing lists, but does it make sense to other non tech people as
> well?
>
> The from address can easily be done, currently we set the from address to
> be "P2PU <reply+asdfjlwerlwe at reply.p2pu.org>", but substituting P2PU for
> the sender's name wouldn't be a problem. I created a issue on github for
> this (https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/issues/173)
>
> Another thing that I am wondering about is what headers we need to
> include? Github sets List-Id, List-Archive, List-Unsubscribe and some
> others. We should also set Message-ID. (
> https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/issues/172)
>
> Please keep the suggestions coming on how we can improve the reply by
> email!
>
> Cheers
> d
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com
> > wrote:
>
>> wow, YES, totally. +100 for this formatting. (though keeping all the fun
>> footer messages :))
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I will be very happy to buy whoever implemented this a beer the next
>>> time we meet! This is really awesome - I've been begging for this kind of
>>> functionality for ever, and it's a bit overwhelming to actually see it
>>> implemented, and working perfectly! :))
>>>
>>> I wonder if we can have a look at the formatting of the messages though,
>>> currently there seems to be a lot of "cruft"... here's an example message:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Chinese for shopkeepers was updated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stian Haklev posted a new comment at Experimenting.
>>>
>>> Comment:
>>> This actually works
>>>
>>> See comment at: https://p2pu.org/comments/19235/
>>>
>>> You can reply to this comment by email! Just type your reply at the top.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> The P2PU Team
>>>
>>> Manage how often you get these delightful messages at:
>>> http://p2pu.org/profile/edit/settings/
>>> ---
>>>
>>> The actual comment is just one line long, and it is buried under all the
>>> other "chrome" (especially if you get a lot of update messages, where 90%
>>> of the contents is the same). Looking at GitHub, for example, they use the
>>> username as sender, without faking the sending email (something like from:
>>> Stian Haklev <reply+34093409 at p2pu.org>).
>>>
>>> We also talked a few times about assigning, or letting the user assign,
>>> short codes to courses. That way the name of the course could be embedded
>>> in the subject line, and the actual subject of the message (or of the
>>> task). So instead of seeing
>>>
>>> ---
>>> P2PU        Stian Haklev posted a new comment in Chinese for Shop
>>> Keepers....
>>> ---
>>> in the inbox overview, we could see
>>> ---
>>> Stian Haklev      [chin-shopkeep] What are the most important characters
>>> for advertising?
>>> ---
>>>
>>> and the e-mail could be compressed to something like this:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> from: Stian Haklev <reply-340924093 at p2pu.org>
>>> subj: [chin-shopkeep] What are the most important characters for
>>> advertising?
>>>
>>> I was reading about different characters used in monetary transactions
>>> yesterday, and I wondered whether 快 or 块 was actually the correct
>>> signifier? The literature differs.
>>>
>>> Stian
>>>
>>> --
>>> This message was posted in the Chinese for Shopkeepers Course<http://f/> on
>>> P2PU. View thread <http://f/>, or respond to this message directly.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Just a suggestion, but I'd love to see some tinkering with this format.
>>>
>>> Stian
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jessy Kate Schingler
>> http://jessykate.com
>>
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