> 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. ... > 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. Martin, please don't assume that everyone deals with their email the way you do. I sort my mail using List-ID header fields, each list's messages go into a separate mailbox (organized much the way Richard Kulawiec suggests), and I find it *fabulously* useful and efficient. Still, I would never suggest that you had to do it that way, nor that your way isn't useful. Your way isn't useful FOR ME. Apparently, my way isn't useful FOR YOU. À chacun, son goût, after all. So the question really goes to the mailman people: can we get an option to make the prefix inclusion a subscriber option? Each list would have a default behaviour, but each user could change it (just as I now change every list's "suppress duplicates" option when I subscribe to it, which makes sure my folders contain complete threads). That would make everyone happy. As long as the option goes by mailing list, and everyone has to eat the preference of whoever sets up the list, we'll have endless and non-productive arguments (like this one) about it. Barry _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf