[vsnet-obs 14702] Posting summary data to the list

[Hazel McGee <HazelMcGee@compuserve.com>]

Dear Taichi

As a newcomer to the list I am reluctant to ask but I wonder if it would be
possible to do a favour to those of us with slow (and expensive!) e-mail
systems?

When you post your excellent summaries and alerts to the list, could you
put the star name first on the subject line?  At the moment the subject
lines read like this:

[vsnet-obs 14620] Recent CI Cam (cont'd)
[vsnet-obs 14606] Outburst of AH Her (update)
[vsnet-obs 14597] Fading of R CrB (cont'd)

My incoming message list cuts off the end of the line so they read as
follows:

[vsnet-obs 14620] Recent C
[vsnet-obs 14606] Outburst
[vsnet-obs 14597] Fading of

This is very annoying as I have to download and read every message before I
know if it is interesting to me.

Would it be possible to re-format the subject lines to something like the
following?   This is still reasonable English and would help to solve the
problem:

[vsnet-obs 14620] CI Cam, recent (cont'd)
[vsnet-obs 14606] AH Her outburst (update)
[vsnet-obs 14597] R CrB fading (cont'd)

I think I am not the only person who would appreciate this change very much
if it is possible to do it.

With best regards, and thanks for all the hard work you do
   Hazel McGee
   Surrey, England.

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