Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

[Amarendra Godbole]

On 4/25/07, Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at 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