On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, John Levine wrote:
I'd like to back up a minute and try to understand better what (if any)
problem we're trying to solve here. So here is a straw poll.
Assuming you do any sorting of inbound mail at all, how do you treat
mail from lists to which you have subscribed?
A) Use the From: address (or something that identifies the contributor)
as the primary sort criterion
B) Use the List-ID: (or something that identifies the list) as the
primiary sort criterion
C) Something else
It is my impression that everyone does B, but maybe I'm wrong.
B when I can, or occasionally whatever's in procmail's venerable ^TO macro.
However, when talking to average user types, they'll most often:
1. wish they knew how to filter
2. /visually/ filter based on subject tags
3. sort alphabetically by subject
4. create MUA filters based on subject
5. create MUA filters based on To/Cc
Perhaps if the List-Id header were visible, they'd consider using that instead.
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