On Sep 1, 2013 1:37 AM, "Eli Barzilay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.)

I was being a little cheeky there.  It would indicate the label, if you had
created a rule to label messages from the list (but still show them in your
inbox).

> > > 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?

It sounds unpleasant, but I can imagine it.  I *can't* imagine my inbox
being usable until those rules had been set up,  though.

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