Some of the recent comments in another thread have
prompted me to ask here how others are reading the forum
messages, organizing the messages they keep, and posting.
I have a rather peculiar setup that is mostly not
worth describing but I will, just for completeness. I use
gmail as a main reader with a POP connection to a text
client, pine. I prefer pine for all my work, but some time
ago enlisted gmail as a sort of web reader so that I could
access email even away from home and to employ the
exceptonal spam filtering gmail affords. I eventually found
it was easier to read and delete emails in gmail than in
pine because when I did so in pine I had to go back and
delete messages in gmail, whereas if I delete them in gmail,
they are not passed on to pine.
There is an additional issue in this decision of
how/where to read messages especially from the forums.
Gmail's philosophy is to archive every message, so gmail
makes it more difficult to delete a message after reading it
than other readers, I believe. But the other features of
gmail seem to outway this annoyance for me.
Replies are easy in gmail if the destination is the
whole forum, but to reply only to the sender requires to
many clicks for me, given that I am a keystroke centered
computer user, and avoid mouse movement.
So, I wonder how others read and selectively save
forum messages, or if others are not saving messages and
have found the forum archive a completely adequate way of
saving messages and therefore just delete almost all
messages, for example.
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