From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 15:37:26 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 647DD16A404 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2216013C44B for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so111674ana for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:37:25 -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=lQ13yBLL/FUssRnlTmHDKH9brA9qwUGJVH1ljaFyPXAEcTBQnlHuFBVWAu59lF0Kv1nDAHMCq9/WAGQYjKeeTgx8ueOU4CkqQXTQnx2VQJRAuC0wl/H+oX1RZu5mTEOWKicSp0f9n7lGHs1VM8kzJhNtXDbojTHkt+lAAxFITl4= 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=bCorEKTi4tOJQDvN1lfcc6ze43NNxrvGEU9OyEp7ij1Al7tXw/TG8PReLfF+uurJ9QrSF0Ya4ZYCoEpM7tGg/S1PDtQI8adhkL5LniJueYvv2fpEKTORtDf0c7MLkSp24rHC79iZxpvaoHzO3LL3i+goltQX1fj7jI4Zg92SK8Y= Received: by 10.100.35.17 with SMTP id i17mr297249ani.1177515445023; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.58.13 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <294439d20704250837k525ddbd5n19ad4c220df0f281@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:07:24 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" To: "Andy Greenwood" In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710704250659l3500f714gd780d69e4012b959@mail.gmail.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> <3ee9ca710704250659l3500f714gd780d69e4012b959@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw 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 15:37:26 -0000 On 4/25/07, Andy Greenwood wrote: > 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. [...] 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