This is coming from a different thread, where Alain Ravet gave a couple of Gmail filters he uses for this group. If you have any tips, please post them.
I use the following filter.
Matches: to:(rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com) Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "*[rails]"
This keeps all of the list traffic out of my Inbox, and labels the email appropriately. The "*" in front of the name is simply for sorting. I have a lot of labels and a lot of filters. Five of my filter/labels dump directly into my archive, so I mark them with a "*" to keep those labels grouped together.
-- James