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
