[teampractices] Email naming in Google Apps Mail

[James Douglas]

+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?
>
> _______________________________________________
> teampractices mailing list
> teampractices at lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
>
>
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