GMail Labs wish list

Well, not much of a list, but a single request. I want to be able to write a filter that will remove a label. Seems simple, but currently it isn't an option. You can only apply a label but not remove one. Why might I want this? Well, I use filters and labels a lot, and sometimes the two filters overlap and message gets marked with an additional label, not incorrectly albeit. It is just that for this particular type of email, I really only want one label to be applied. If I could write a filter that says "don't apply label" or maybe "remove label" for the emails in question, then everything would work out. Overall, it seems strange to me that filters have positive assertions but not negative assertions in filters: as in, if the message doesn't contain something, or it is not from a given address. It would be a nice feature to have and make filters much more powerful.

So get on it Google! You can try and take over the world tomorrow.