On 22/04/2021 23:38, Keith Moore wrote:
On 4/22/21 6:31 PM, Ofer Inbar wrote:
Would adding area and WG tags in an email header to the initial
announcement to last-call, in a standard format, make it easy enough
for people to set up something to alert them to the ones they care
about?
I doubt it, because even among IETF participants I'm not sure how many
people have access to effective configurable mail filtering (without
changing email providers), or the inclination to learn how to use it.
But doing that might be a good first step toward making more powerful
tools available (and/or toward educating people about how to use the
tools they already have).
One problem that I get is the WG tags being placed in the mail subject
so that the mail can no longer be collated by subject, contrary to the
IESG statement - 'Last Call comments should preserve the beginning of
the original subject header ...'. A recent thread acquired both [I2NSF]
and [IPSEC] prior to the original subject - and there is no guarantee
that they will stay in the same order for subsequent posts and while a
standard feature of an MUA is to ignore 're:' when sorting, I know of no
MUA that can be persuaded to ignore [IPSEC] and such like when sorting
mail by subject.
So no, please remove the WG tags from the Last Call list!
Tom Petch
Keith
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