This was just posted to the Full Disclosure security mailing list.

I’ve recently started using the highlight feature in evolution to apply colours to incoming mail where the ’sender’ matches certain criteria - doing this lets me assign a pleasant (but obvious) colour to people I know and/or whose postings are interesting (respectively red and redorange), and a vile colour to those whose postings are silly/downright stupid (respectively forest green and lime green).

Doing this, I’ve found, gives me a great indicator as to the qualities of a thread - a large amount of either colour clearly indicates the general tone of the thread (and a large amount of both tends to indicate a ‘hot topic’). Suffice it to say that unless looking for a comedy moment in my afternoon, I tend to ignore those putrid green threads and head straight for a red.

So simple, so elegant. I’m definitely going to try it.