n 9 Aug 2011, at 21:56, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Martin Rex <mrex@xxxxxxx> 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 think the idea is that having the Subject prefix will allow sorting by visual inspection of one folder - the Inbox - where List-id will not. I'm guilty of that habit, too, I won't deny it. But this is a red herring - of course, if you can sort matching messages into a folder, you can visually tag them, too. And you can sort them using headers not usually displayed as with those that are. Using an existing header that's already displayed in an index is just a hack, (from majordomo days, not surprisingly, and meant as an aid to broken or ineffectual mail software) and the trick is to upgrade your MUA and list software, or make do with list folders otherwise. Cheers, Sabahattin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf