10 minutes ago, PJ Weisberg wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2013 11:31 AM, "Eli Barzilay" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Sidenote#2: Yes, in a perfect world I'd have my client show that
> > to me (unlike what it does now, which is add to the subject) based
> > on mailing list headers.  I could even do that for my own client
> > (VM), but good luck getting gmail to add that feature.
> 
> It does have that feature.  The label is shown right next to the
> subject, if you're looking at it in your inbox.

Um, I don't know what you're talking about.  What I was talking about
is what I see in gmail, eg: http://tmp.barzilay.org/x.png -- no
indication of a mailing list.  (And my phone, which is just as
indication-less.)


> > Sidenote#3: On gmail I could use labels, but doing that for tens
> > of lists is a project I don't have time to, and it places a higher
> > workload on subscribing to mailing lists since I'd need to
> > maintain these rules to match.  
> 
> Setting up the rule would take less time than reading even one email
> that you didn't intend to read.  (Hint: don't look for esoteric
> mailing list headers; filter on the To: field.)

Last week I joined a new project, with about 90 github-hosted
repositories.  Each of these acts as its own mailing list.  Can you
imagine sitting in front of gmail and manually setting 90 filtering
rules?  Worse, if I move on to a different project in a few months I
need to scan the list and drop these rules.  This kind of manual
maintenance is just impractical.  Lucky for me, github follows the
"[repo]" convention for these emails... much like 90% of the mailing
lists that I have seen (including the mailman-users list, btw).

(But really, I don't want to poop on anyone's lawn.  If everyone else
is happy with it, so be it.  I still have my trusty procmail.)

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