Re: [arch-d] Mail Etiquette

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 10 April 2020 20:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [arch-d] Mail Etiquette
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In article <688f5250-c8f6-765b-a51a-b931b76e6d65@v-tr.org> you write:
>Automated sorting becomes a pain if the list's address is sometimes in
>To, sometimes in Cc and whatnot. Also, those duplicates like to appear
>in different folders making it difficult to track threats.

Messages sent through IETF lists all have a List-ID header.  That's
what you sort on.  Works great.

>Anything against simply replying to the list instead?

As John K said, there's a great deal of history here and reasons that
people do what they do.  It's not that hard to adjust your mail
handling to match what we all do, and rather quixotic to expect people
to change 30 years of practice across hundreds of lists.

R's,
John