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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>
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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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