Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:07:24 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> To: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions] Message-ID: <294439d20704250837k525ddbd5n19ad4c220df0f281@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710704250659l3500f714gd780d69e4012b959@mail.gmail.com> References: <294439d20704250627h60a5b5dcx49f4dd6b34c2caa1@mail.gmail.com> <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com> <3ee9ca710704250659l3500f714gd780d69e4012b959@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/25/07, Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/25/07, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > > > > I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to > > > visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it > > > possible to add a tag in the subject line, something like, [fbsd-q], > > > or [fbsd-questions], or similar so that emails can be visually > > > classified? > > > > > > Given that these lists have been around for a long time, was there a > > > discussion on this? If the idea of tagging was dropped, can someone > > > inform me about the rationale behind this decision? Thanks in advance! > > > > All messages are already tagged with a List-ID > > > > e.g. > > > > List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> > > > > Can gmail not filter on that? > > it's not documented, but you can filter like this > > listid:freebsd-questions.freebsd.org > > under the "has the words" section of the filter creation page. [...] Thanks all for your suggestions and clarifications. I do agree that visual tagging increases the length of the subject line a bit too much to fit in one screen properly. I will setup gmail filters, as suggested. -Amarendra
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