Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:46 PM -0700 R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. My CentOS box is my mail server. It uses procmail as the

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: One typical scenario is when I am interested in following one branch of a thread (i.e. a subthread), while I wish to ignore the rest. In KMail's

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:48 AM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: i am suprised that more folks havent spoken up about favorite threaded email readers or has everyone just gone to Thunderbird or other similar?

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Threads really only matter when responses are slow enough that you forget the context - in which case you probably aren't all that interested anyway. Or when you are involved in several conversations at the same time,

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-01 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: What I miss a lot in gmail's web interface is proper threading. That conversation organization of e-mails is essentially the same thing, only done

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-09-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: One typical scenario is when I am interested in following one branch of a thread (i.e. a subthread), while I wish to ignore the rest. In KMail's threaded view this is trivial --- subthreads are just various branches in

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread wwp
Hello R, On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:46:53 -0700 R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists.

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:46:53 AM R - elists wrote: we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. While I use Kmail (which can

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:46:53 AM R - elists wrote: snip While I use Kmail (which can do very powerful filtering based on a number snip So how is kmail these days? I jumped ship to t-bird about '03 or '05, when I got tired of kmail munging my mbox (I tend to have

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:25 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So how is kmail these days? I jumped ship to t-bird about '03 or '05, when I got tired of kmail munging my mbox (I tend to have thousands of emails stored there, before I get around to moving them to a dated folder...). Why not store

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:25:06 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:46:53 AM R - elists wrote: snip While I use Kmail (which can do very powerful filtering based on a number snip So how is kmail these days? Kmail beats the Dickens out of

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:34:48 AM Always Learning wrote: Why not store them in a correspondence database ? Kmail is working towards full Akonadi integration, and the full 'semantic desktop' paradigm is (or will be) available. So it's already being done, to a degree, and in a very

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:46 PM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread R - elists
Christopher, It's not an email program but I think it has the best filtering capabilities of all - the brain. umm, yeah, exactly, i want to use my brain to program certain peoples posts from never reaching my eyeballs arent they called threaded email readers? i really didnt find much

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:15 AM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: sometimes people on the list just get beligerant, drunk, and/or stupid and need to be filtered. But filters tend to be stupid as well. And once you are involved in a conversation you should have a certain responsibility

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread R - elists
But filters tend to be stupid as well. And once you are involved in a conversation you should have a certain responsibility to follow it to the bitter end. Filters mostly don't understand that (but gmail will push a reply to your own message into the 'important' view). i hear ya

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:48 AM, R - elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: But filters tend to be stupid as well.   And once you are involved in a conversation you should have a certain responsibility to follow it to the bitter end.  Filters mostly don't understand that (but gmail will push a

[CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-30 Thread R - elists
we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. the CentOS list signal/noise ratio is so bad that we need something better than just

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-30 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:46 PM, R - elists wrote: we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. It's not an email program but

Re: [CentOS] OT: help with email list reading programs w/ best features to read the centos and other lists that can filter people etc

2011-08-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:46:53 -0700 R - elists wrote: we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists. the CentOS list signal/noise