I assume that others
have come across this problem as well,
but I haven't seen
anything mentioned about it on this list or the IETF sites.
I receive over
500 non-spam emails every day (peaks can reach 1000).
These include emails
from about 15 IETF lists,
about 25 other
standardization lists, some 20 lists on technical topics,
multiple internal
corporate lists, (and even a few emails sent only to
me).
The only way I can
deal with this load and maintain my sanity
is by using a large
set of sorting rules.
I have quite a few
rules dealing with IETF emails that all worked well until the
transition.
Some of my rules
look for [WG-NAME] in the subject line.
However, some
WG lists (e.g. L2VPN) do not use this convention
.
Also, I
sometimes have trouble when I forward an email to someone "for
information"
who then returns an
urgent answer leaving the subject line intact.
Some of my rules WERE based on the sender,
for example, mails
from ietf-announce-request@xxxxxxxx.
With the transition
the sender changed to ietf-announce-bounces@xxxxxxxx.
I exchanged emails
with ietf-action@xxxxxxxx and was told
that this
kind of change was
here to stay. Being somewhat skeptical I decided to change
the logic and to
focus on the list to which it was sent, rather than the
sender.
I had avoided this
in the past, since frequently people email someone else
and only cc the list, making the logic
more intricate.
These new
rules work some of the time, but not always.
For example, in the
past emails to the MPLS WG list
(that
were from mpls-request@xxxxxxxx
but now come from mpls-bounces@xxxxxxxx)
were sent to mpls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx . I modified my
rule to flag this list address.
But now the emails
are being directed to mpls@xxxxxxxx !
Would it be possible
to post information that would help here ?
What is constant and
can be relied upon ?
Would it be possible
to set up guidelines for WGs to follow,
including those
(e.g. NTP) who use non-IETF domains ?
Y(J)S
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