Re: [e-mail] is a failure

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 09/06/2013 13:20, Andy Bierman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure how the desire for IETF Last Call discussions
> to be on a dedicated and constrained mailing list in any way
> implies that this generalized and unconstrained list is somehow a failure.
> 
> Filtering by subject line is unreliable.
> For example, please provide a filter that will
> not have any false positives or negatives over the
> past 20,000 emails on this list. Do we have tools that make sure
> no human has altered any subject line inappropriately?
> Filtering by mailing list address is much easier and more reliable.

True, but it's a much coarser implement. Indeed, I mainly filter
to 'junk' rather than 'trash' so that once in a while I can
check for false positives. False negatives aren't that big a
problem in practice; the delete key works quickly.

   Brian