From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 13:59:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC8516A403 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5F13C483 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so194672pyh for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:59:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gA3ZL0KVNVt4Gn4nFc0w/45qMcjq6Us/Y1Ywff/HN6jtwy+wyTK22+Jow63RdguXDp32Yd5sBZIQE9dPdUWiVFJWTmeF+0P+fhVs1q5VKD43vwe6d3cgpuCRciabWI75NeZm/13he3Xa9c3oARAT0AnINcn2ME+ehG01RGVZf5A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MiSK1qH/QWCu8y509yqB0lpjIULdJvBYGPjidFHfvWB5lY2DVensTcTkIUlPfMhdtDY7PvVyxtDy4yqWZM5K5FmY1Jvr/EHSLdHpgs0wi3UVPpEtB2nd+4p2PqRAxUKLKatxHEiG4EqYuRSAJD/GJEGoG63rzRrszDtYlQHrlnk= Received: by 10.65.188.14 with SMTP id q14mr1503825qbp.1177509543910; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.47.5 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3ee9ca710704250659l3500f714gd780d69e4012b959@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:59:03 -0400 From: "Andy Greenwood" To: "Alex Zbyslaw" In-Reply-To: <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <294439d20704250627h60a5b5dcx49f4dd6b34c2caa1@mail.gmail.com> <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Amarendra Godbole , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:59:04 -0000 On 4/25/07, Alex Zbyslaw 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 > > 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. > > Visual tagging of subject lines is a poor solution. Either you tag at > the front > > "[fbsd-questions] Really long subject line that gets truncated even > earlier thanks to the tag" > > or at the end > > "Really long subject line where the tag disappears in a haze of ... > [fbsd-questions]" > > Neither of which is satisfactory, and for most people with sensible > email environments that can filter of Header lines, an unnecessary > inconvenience. > > Not to mention the question of how on earth you co-ordinate unique tags > across mailing lists. Since the List-ID isn't constrained by length it > can contain the email address of the list, which is already unique. > > If you can't filter on the List-ID then filter on To and Cc lines which > contain questions@freebsd.org or freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Not as > good, but it would do. > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream