Yes, I had fun venting. :-P The good news is that I found a way to get it to work, after I had already submitted this post. I'll post the solution in a bit (later tonight) so others can benefit.
On Monday, June 3, 2013 6:46:53 PM UTC-4, Zack Tennant wrote: > > I hope you had fun with your sarcasm, but since this is only a user's > forum, no one from GMail will get to read it. > > I would think "-in:chat" would work, but since filters apply to messages > when they arrive, and "all simultaneously", I can see why they might not > work on filters to exclude. I personally just have chat turned off, so > it's not a problem for me. > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Andy <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Since May 2013, I find that my filters for gmail addresses now catches >> chats. It's great. I like to keep myself busy, so yay, I get to wade >> through lots and lots of chats before actually finding the email messages >> that I actually want to read. >> >> Keep up the good work. While you're at it, may I suggest that you tweak >> it some more to catch some random email messages that don't match the >> filter, for no good reason. Because, you know, I like to keep myself busy. >> >> I used to be able to exclude the chats by putting -"Chat with" in the >> Subject field. That no longer works. Using -in:chats doesn't seem to work >> either (except as a manual search). >> >> There has GOT to be a way to say *I WANT TO LABEL EMAIL AND NOTHING >> ELSE. NO CHATS!!!* >> >> In closing, MANY THANKS for cluttering a good thing. Keep it up. We >> need more noise in our lives, we need to get less done, and we need to >> waste more time looking for things that used to be easy to find. This new >> improvement is an excellent step in that direction. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
