----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Rex" <mrex(_at_)sap(_dot_)com>
To: "Barry Leiba" <barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org>
Cc: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:00 AM
Barry Leiba wrote:
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Martin Rex <mrex(_at_)sap(_dot_)com> wrote:
If one intends to actually *process* close to all of the Emails hitting
one's inbox in near real time, then List-Id:, and any pre-sorting based
on it, will _always_ slow down processing (unless the MUA or the processing
is flawed).
Whereas a subject prefix significantly facilitates tracking of stuff
in a single large inbox. I'm getting 300+/day Emails and try to read >95%
of it (my company internal Email is completely seperate at ~30/day, though).
This makes no sense to me, Martin. Please explain why sorting based
on a subject prefix will work, while sorting based on a List-ID header
field will not.
I do not sort EMail at all (my MUA does not support sorting).
subject_prefix _obviates_ sorting.
MUAs typically display the inbox with (status,sender,subject,received-time).
With subject_prefix I can quite easily tell apart discussions from several
IETF mailing lists, and it works with _every_ MUA with default settings.
<tp>
Until you get a Last Call, which is cross posted to the WG list, and some
replies have
[wgfb] and some do not, and then it gets cross posted to SAAG and we get
[wgfb][saag] or [saag][wgfb] or [saag] or [wgfb] or .... You could of course
request an update to all MUAs to ignore prefixes when collating.
But nope, prefixes are a dead technology; do not insert them on the IETF list
(speaking as one whose MUA, supplied by the manufacturer who supplies most of
the world's MUAs, cannot do anything with List-Id:-(.
Tom Petch
</tp>
-Martin
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