Help!! How to use a mailing list 'effectively'

[Peter Bourgon]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Neutrino . <redirect.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> For example I have this message from you and checking the details it appears
> to have been mailed directly to Tony Mechelynck while cc'ing myself directly
> _and_ the Mercurial mailing list. Which of course defeats the filter.

This doesn't defeat or confuse the filter for me. This is totally
normal mailing list behavior.

> Well that's odd because that's exactly what I have set up. The problem I'm
> finding though is that the filter doesn't work because the 'To' field fr
> replies does not contain the mailing list address as I expect it to.

Use the special Gmail mailing-list-filter feature, discussed
previously, rather than relying on the mailing list address
necessarily being in the To: field (which is not guaranteed).