[p2pu-dev] Reply by email to notifications, formatting
Jessy Kate Schingler
jessy at jessykate.com
Fri Jul 13 16:20:45 UTC 2012
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
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