Agreed with both Doug as well as Molly! Standard is the
major...
On Jan 20, 2:09 am, mollys57 <mollysk... gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a friend who thought everything she sent was of
high importance,
> gossip, recipes, long emails of nothing, so for me the
flag became a
> sign to delete..it has the chance of being abused by
self important
> idiots.
>
> On Jan 15, 11:20 pm, Doug Weller <dougwel...gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jan 15, 10:13 pm, Andrew Ingraham
<andrew.ingra...gmail.com>
> > wrote:> > but really, the priority flag
is no different from writing
> > > > "Important" in the subject
line, which is why I (half-)jokingly
> > > > suggested it.
>
> > > Well, yes, except that (1) the
priority/important/flag stands out differently
> > > when it is displayed by your email program,
(2) some spam filters will label
> > > it as spam if the subject line contains the
word "important" (especially in
> > > all caps), and (3) apparently, the
priority/importance flag is an add-on and
> > > not part of the email standard as defined in
the RFCs, whereas "important" in
> > > the subject line meets the standard. It
seems to be set with some combination
> > > of "X-Priority" and/or
"X-MSMail-Priority" in the headers.
>
> > > Personally I like the importance flag and
wish it were standard. But that's
> > > just me.
>
> > I like it, but it's not standard and I don't see
any chance of it
> > becoming standard.
> > It is useful in business use, and I was glad Lotus
Notes had it.
> > But GMail is basically not suited for business use
(at least the free
> > version).
> > Doug- Hide quoted text -
>
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