Re: email headers on lists like this one

[Samuel Wales]

welli was wrong.  the search experssion, even if it could be tured
into a filter, gets too many false positives.

list:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org (to:me OR from:me) needs some tweaking for that.

On 11/29/22, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> unfortunately i am going to admit that i am more confused than ever.
>
> [the story: i want to notice replies to my emails and conversations in
> which i have participated.  but i send emacs mailing list email to a
> tag/folder.  i want the ones i am part of to go to my inbox or
> some other prominent location.]
>
> can it be done without requesting all respondents to include me in cc
> or to?  that seems burdensome to them and brittle.
>
> alternatives sem to be by some header magic at the emacs mailing list
> server, or by filtering in my webmail.
>
>
> here is the thing: i note that my webmail puts a unicode >> in front
> of conversation that have posts directed to me and > in front of
> conversations that include me as part of them.  this is /exactly/ the
> distinciton i want.
>
> i want all emacs mailng list email to go to my emacs folder / tag /
> [whatever it is in this webmail], /except/ all conversations with > or
>>>, which go to inbox.  so, if gmail had an e.g. has:arrows search
> trick [idk if it does], then maybe i could construct a filter to go to
> the emacs tag that would look like [list:emacs -(has:arrows)] or
> something.  i probably got that wrong due to cognitive issues.
>
> idk if it does have that feature in its search capability, but given
> that it has that feature /in the first place/ suggests to me that all
> the information it needs, it has.  although maybe it has to look at
> all posts in the conversation to know?
>
> i do notice that if i search for mail like list:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> (to:me OR from:me), then that is a pretty good approximation of the
> conversations i want to notice.  but the filter interface does not
> allow search expressions.
>
> On 11/26/22, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
>> Björn Bidar wrote:
>>
>>>> i am subscribed to this list, but it is in a different
>>>> folder. even if i participate in a thread, including
>>>> starting one, it stays in that folder, so i frequently miss
>>>> replies to my posts. are there settings for these maiing
>>>> lists that will add headers like in-reply-to or references
>>>> or something so that those particular threads will show up
>>>> in my inbox?
>>>
>>> There are ways to do that however if a user doesn't
>>> correctly cc
>>
>> Okay, what's the correct CC then?
>>
>>> There are headers for that however please check your mail
>>> provider how to filter
>>
>> *client
>>
>> In general, for Emacs, mailing lists and FOSS use Emacs Gnus
>> [see screenshot] with Gmane, CC (case closed).
>>
>> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/emacs/gnus/gnus-gmane.png
>>
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