Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

James Moore wrote:
> I'd agree with location information being far more important than titles...
> ...
> The actual format of the location information doesn't really matter to me;
> just being the first thing in the mail subject would be a huge improvement.
> ...
> Special-casing the US is probably wrong...

I agree, generally.

The only special case I proposed was taking advantage of state (and 
probably Canadian provinces) abbreviations, which would lead to US and 
Canadian postings having a somewhat more compact location format.

If you buy into the general principle that the location information 
should be prioritized, then that it takes up more space on the 
international listings should be of minor consequence.

The job posting form could always have additional, optional fields added 
for users to supply abbreviations. Though I'm not sure it'd be worth the 
added complication.


Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> By the way, I have been convinced the mailing list subjects should be 
> the other way around.

Good to hear. Even a reordering without a reformatting would be a step 
in the right direction.

  -Tom

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