From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T03:13:12+09:00
Subject: Re: META: Ruby Talk Noise/Signal

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:38:32PM +0900, thoran@thoran.com wrote:
>   
>> Dear Fellow Ruby Talkers,
>>
>> Short of creating a new list, is there means by which we can 
>> collectively reduce the noise/signal?
>>
>>     
<snip>
>> 2. mailing list identification
>> Some of the subject lines in this list look like spam.  If there was a
>> simple [ruby-talk] at the beginning of subject lines, or maybe just
>> [ruby], or even [rt], it'd be a lot easier to filter appropriately.
>> Thank goodness I use a console-based mail user agent, or some of those
>> spam emails I've opened thinking they were list traffic might have
>> infected my graphical mail client with a macro virus or otherwise
>> executed foreign code on my system.  As things stand, the waste of time
>> involved is kind of annoying.
>>     

I have it sorted out to a different folder based on the to: field, which 
is 'ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org'

Works perfectly for me. And that way I can have Thunderbird show that 
folder in a threaded view without affecting anything else.

-Justin