[teampractices] Email naming in Google Apps Mail

Mon Jun 15 16:43:10 UTC 2015

More useful names sounds like a good idea.

Is the current description used both as the Contacts list name, and also to
populate the second column in this table[1]? If so (as it appears), then
Max's proposal might be a bit too terse. Maybe there is a middle ground
that would put the most pertinent info first, but still make sense to less
technical folks.

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:37 AM, James Douglas <jdouglas at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> +1
>
> I've been manually renaming mailing lists like this in my Gmail contacts,
> but it would be convenient if it were done on a global level.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I've been noticing quite a few lists with names like
>>
>> "A mailing list to discuss team practices in Wikimedia organizations" <
>> teampractices at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>> While this isn't a terrible name for these types of lists (as they
>> accurately describe the list purpose), giving the email's "name" as a
>> sentence results in the first word of the sentence being used by Gmail to
>> identify the sender to the email user. In the above case, the list arrives
>> in an inbox as sent by "A" instead of the full name. This behavior may vary
>> from service to service.
>>
>> On Gmail, this can get confusing if there are multiple email lists that
>> start with the same word. Is anyone aware of a setting to show the full
>> sender's name? Else, I think it may be a better convention to name list
>> with underscores. In this case, the name could be
>> "WMF_Team_Practices_Public."
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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