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On 02/14/2014 01:31 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> Since gmail does not have its own forums (as far I can tell) I am asking
> this here.  Maybe someone, here, knows:
> 
> 1. Gmail determines the importance of a piece of mail by (among other
> things) how frequently you read related mails (for example it considers
> ports-bugs@ to be important for my case but that's only because I currently
> have a couple of ports in the process of being committed)
> 
> 2. There seems no way (besides reading this include marking it as read) to
> mark a message as being not important

I don't use gmail often, and I use its 'helpful features' even less; but
can't you just click on the 'important' symbol next to the star to turn
it not-yellow? The tooltip for the symbol suggests that this is the
case, but I have no clue whether or not it actually works.

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