I use Thunderbird for my Inbox management, don't know what I'd do without it, to be perfectly honest. I set up filter rules for every list I subscribe to, which looks for "[flexcoders]" in the subject for example, and automatically routes emails to the appropriate folder.
If I want to flag a particular post as "reference" or "to look into" or "to reply" or whatever, I have colour-coded tags which all have 0-9 hotkeys, and with a single click that post is tagged. I don't bother deleting anything, cause I don't have to, which means it's all available as a reference if I need it. In fact I have filters that sort emails from newsletters, vendors, clients, colleagues, family, everything, and whatever the filter doesn't know what to do with goes into my Inbox. I get hundreds of emails a day, dozens not counting newsletters and lists. My Inbox gets maybe one or two a day. Initially you might spend a lot of time establishing filters, but after a time it manages itself, like training a spam algorithm. It also means that after seven years of list subscriptions my email folder is huge (3.7 GB), but the upside outweighs the downside. I'm not a big fan of online email services anyways. _______________________________________________________________ Joseph Balderson, Flash Platform Developer | http://joeflash.ca Anatole Tartakovsky wrote: > Josh, > It is definitely up to flexcoders as a group to make these decision - > not me for sure. > I did suggest separate group on "best practices" and I do not think > you can separate UI best practices in Front-end tool - but I might > assume much. > > "Enterprise" in Flex is reasonably well defined - anything that is based > on commercial LCDS + typical tasks for enterprises - portals > integration, large team management, scalability, and whatever else. > Basically people usually know if they are working in enterprise and > would use their judgement. > > The same goes for 101 - people often know if they are within the first > 6 month. 101 presumes that there is FAQ thread somewhere, and hopefully > WiKi with repeated questions. It also gives Adobe better idea what new > developers have problem with and they can make product more intuitive > for new developers. > > As far as scaring people - my post clearly states that at this point new > developers scare experienced ones instead of letting people work > together. With smaller groups it is possible to get moderators. Take a > look at weborb, every message you send gets to developers blackberry, > but quite a few are answered by experienced developers that are in that > group for quite some time. With smaller groups and defined target > audience you can provide better targeted answers that would suite that > community better. > > As far as better inbox management - I would love to hear about something > that works - but I have not seen anything that would do 10 way split for me. > > Sincerely > Anatole Tartakovsky > Farata Systems > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Define "enterprise" without resorting to some variation of "mo' bettah" > > What about best practices in Flex UI coding? Where do those posts go? > > And who decides what posts go in the "advanced" lists, and what go > in the "101" list? Sounds like an invitation for grumpy nerds to > flame noobs and scare them away from the community... > > I'm not suggesting we don't split the list at all, just that we put > some serious thought into it first. Definitions of what belongs in > what group, and a lot of publicly available information to help > people locate the best list for their question. Maybe have some sort > of community vote or something; we don't want to fracture the > community, there's not *that* many of us yet. > > Personally I think the problems are at the moment best solved by > clever inbox management. > > -Josh > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Anatole Tartakovsky > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > Flexcoders has huge problem. In the last 15 month it is very > much stagnant in terms of message count and participation. It is > not growing and dropping members as fast as it gets them. > > I believe this group has overgrown the optimal size about a > year ago and needs to be divided in more focused smaller groups. > My mail box get 100+ messages a day on all kinds of topic - > unless I can spend 30+ minutes that day to sort them out it goes > directly into garbage can. Most people in the > company unsubscribed from it 18 month ago. Most of veteran > developers I know either unsubscribed or stopped looking in this > mess greatly diminishing the quality of the responses. As a > result group mostly host new developers and looses most of > experienced ones after very short period of time. > > Further delay of breaking this group hinders usefulness of the > group for all of us as now we have significant amount of users > that are being forced out. I believe it is time to archive > flexcoders and branch (12?) targeted new user groups > > I would like to see people suggesting user subgroups and WiKi > topics for Flex community site to go with each group - providing > best posts in more systematic way. > > I suggest the following Yahoo groups ( created couple for your > convenience). > > Flex101: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flex101/ > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > FlexUI > FlexDesign > > FlexSDK > FlexDeployment > > FlexFlash > > FlexFrameworks > > FlexBestPractices > > EnterpriseFlex: > > FlexBlazeDS: > > weborb: > > Sincerely, > Anatole Tartakovsky > Farata Systems > > > > > > > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for > thee." > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --
