Re: [Tools-discuss] last-call list subject lines

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > On 9/28/20 3:33 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote: > Can you say more about
    >> why that change would help?
    >>
    >> Sorting by subject would be more useful.
    >>
    >> Scanning by eye is easier, particularly since the right-hand side
    >> often gets truncated.
    >>
    >> Yes, I can use search in the end, which is what I did.

    > Right.

    > Searching would be made a little more difficult were we to change
    > things as you suggested (at least with simple string searches).

    > Right now, you can search for all the reviews on a doc using "review of
    > draft-<blah>" or "telechat review of draft-<blah>".

And I can see how this was a win when ietf@ and last-call@  were combined.
If you look at last-call, "review of" is redundant.  Almost every message
subject contains that string :-)

    > I'm not sure its a big enough win to drive a change though - if we were
    > to change, future searchers (looking across the period of change) would
    > have to search for both things.

Yes, that's a concern.

    > Scanning by eye suffers some of the same tradeoffs. Since group
    > acronyms tend to be short, as are the types of review, the form of the
    > line is currently mostly static as you scan down - the column breaks
    > move a little with a very rough right edge. Moving the draft name to
    > the front will make all the column boundaries very rough.

sure.  I get it in my inbox as well as I look back in the archives with IMAP.
I feel there is a benefit for my inbox too, as I am more likely to notice
things.  I even thought to suggest removing  "draft-", but I didn't.

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