Importance can only be a useful label if the sender and
receiver would
agree that the matter is important. If they are not
familiar with
each other, and email system with an importance label
presents an
additional opportunity for abuse by spammers. If they are
and don't
think alike about what's important (a la molly57's post),
the receiver
is still needlessly "alerted" and inconvenienced.
The only useful
importance label would be within some sort of
"network" such as in a
business or other common enterprise.
Worth
On Jan 19, 1:09 pm, 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 -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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