Richard Kulawiec wrote: > > Let me start with a preamble: I think that those of us who choose > to "drink from the firehose" by subscribing to many mailing lists List-Id: is only useful for folks who have either lots of time on their hands, or want to use automatic archival and have no desire to actually process the email they're receiving. > > Now, to the substance of what you've said: > > I'm not surprised this presents difficulties: funneling all incoming > mail into one mailbox means that...all incoming mail is in one mailbox. Yes, and that is the most efficient way to perform full processing. I'm a simple human being that can focus his mind and his eyesight only on one single thing at a time, so everything has to be serialized anyway, and no amount of slicing and dicing the stuff will reduce the amount of processing -- but most of it will incur additional actions to open it when it is not queued in a single inbox. > > And while it's still possible to sort, tag, and filter that mail easily > if you have a quality mail client [1] those tasks aren't as easy as > they could be if that mail was in separate mailboxes. seperate mailboxes is OK for archiving, but it adds complexity and costs additional time if the intention is to really process 95% of the stuff (5% is junk that I delete without opening). -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf