I agree that the lines ought to work, but don't. A full cycle of bullet-point types could do something (the Board unfortunately only has three, with everything after the first two levels just being a square); in fact, even without that, the bullet would mark the beginning of the subject line nicely - so you'd read the tags as part of the subject, not as empty space.

Or you could move the tags to after the subject, but that would make them less prominent... I don't know how prominent they need to be, though.

Obviously the one that's going to come up most is New, followed by Edited. Locked and Poofed are less critical, because we're not going to be using admin tools very often.

hS