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someone had posted an article about this awhile back, but (let's just say it could be implemented easily, I know it's unrealistic), having an email protocol system with different levels of priority, so that emails that are time-sensitive have higher priorities than marketing emails? I'm not talking about filtering emails into labels like google does with it's inbox/social/promotions, but actual priority levels that you'd add similar to an email's subject line. And if filtering is a more realistic option, what about establishing some sort of standard for adding priority to the end of an email (ex. ::::Important:12hours::::) that a filter would then pick up. And abuse of the system would result in your future email's priority not being respected as seriously by whatever sorting algorithm.