[ietf-dkim] Mailing list reality check

[J.D. Falk]

On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, John Levine wrote:

> I'd like to back up a minute and try to understand better what (if any)
> problem we're trying to solve here.  So here is a straw poll.
> 
> Assuming you do any sorting of inbound mail at all, how do you treat
> mail from lists to which you have subscribed?
> 
> A) Use the From: address (or something that identifies the contributor)
> as the primary sort criterion
> 
> B) Use the List-ID: (or something that identifies the list) as the
> primiary sort criterion
> 
> C) Something else
> 
> It is my impression that everyone does B, but maybe I'm wrong.

B when I can, or occasionally whatever's in procmail's venerable ^TO macro.

However, when talking to average user types, they'll most often:

1. wish they knew how to filter
2. /visually/ filter based on subject tags
3. sort alphabetically by subject
4. create MUA filters based on subject
5. create MUA filters based on To/Cc

Perhaps if the List-Id header were visible, they'd consider using that instead.