add some more info to the initial tagging page

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-# Initial Tagging
+# Approaches to initial tagging of messages

 
 This page collects scripts and strategies for organizing mail using
 notmuch and doing automated initial tagging.
 
 
 This page collects scripts and strategies for organizing mail using
 notmuch and doing automated initial tagging.
 

+Here's a very general and ad-hoc approach to initial message tagging.
+The [new] config section allows you to control which tags new messages
+receive.  This sets all new messages to get the "new" tag:
+
+    [new]
+    tags=new;
+
+After running "notmuch new", all new messages will be marked "new".
+You can then do various tag post-processing by just acting on messages
+with that tag.  For instance, a post-processing script might do the
+following:
+
+    # immediately archive all messages from "me"
+    notmuch tag -new -- tag:new and from:me@example.com
+
+    # delete all messages from a spammer:
+    notmuch tag +deleted -- from:spam@spam.com
+
+    # tag all message from notmuch mailing list
+    notmuch tag +notmuch -- to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+
+    # finally, retag all "new" messages s "inbox" and "unread"
+    notmuch tag +inbox +unread -new -- tag:new
+
+Since the post-processing is only acting on a few messages, it is
+generally extrememly fast.
+
+## Other solutions
+

 * [This
   email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html)
   (and related thread) details Carl Worth's approach to tagging. It is
 * [This
   email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html)
   (and related thread) details Carl Worth's approach to tagging. It is