Moin, well yeah, please no. Lots of low-volume lists still hit my inbox, and the 'filtering' there is done by a small program called 'me'. These things are insanely helpful for that. With best regards, Tobias On Fri, 2025-08-01 at 10:14 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > We have had the List-ID header for 24 years now. Any MUA or MDA > that can filter on "[xxx]" in the subject header can filter on > "<xxx>" in the List-ID header. The need for the [xxx] Subject > prefix tags expired long ago. > > The tags are quite annoying, in that they push the actual Subject > header text off the screen. This is especially true for lists with > long names, and is compounded when a message from > [this-is-a-verbosely-named-list] is forwarded to [this-is-another- > list-with-a-chatty-name]; pretty soon the Subject text is rendered > invisible. > > It's time the IETF retired those prefix tags from all of its > mailing lists. > > --lyndon
