Quoting Brian Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not at all, they are ideal to use for email rules to sort into different > folders.
No, they are not. As has been pointed out, they are not unique. What _is_ ideal, or would be if every list manager used it, is the List-ID: header. Failing that, the To: header can give reasoable results, or in the case of this list at present the List-post: header is probably the best option. For a given list there is pretty much invariably something else that can be used to better effect. The only positive thing you can say about subject line tags is that even really crap MUA's tend to be able to sort on them (say the Hotmail web interface for example; last time I checked that couldn't even sort on To: but could manage Subject: ) Set against that, they make reading the Subject difficult and can mess up threading if users' MUAs don't supply Reference: or In-Reply-To: headers and mine has to fallback on a best guess based on Subject: To be far though, at least on this list the tag is placed after any "Re:" so threading tends to survive. So my vote goes to (and I have no illusions about this being a democracy, but if it were...) dump the subject tag and add a List-ID: header. > I get between 50-100 emails a day, and need to prioritise which i > read immediatly, and which I leave until later. > Which is enough to make sorting and filtering a necessity, but is hardly a huge amount. -- Chris Hastie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
