Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 06:24:55AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >> I get more mail than that before breakfast. If you've got the >> right tools, it's easy to deal with. > > This is an excellent point. Many of the people who lodge complaints > like the one that started this discussion thread have chosen very poor > tools and thus have conflated the failings of those tools with some > non-existent inherent problems with mailing lists.
To expand on that with my own personal prejudice -- the people using these "sub-par" tools are also the ones who're the cause of some of the existent (modern?) problems with mailing lists. Namely: - HTML Messages - Not wrapping messages at ~80 characters - top posting > > Serious email users should be using mutt, which is fast, compact, > resistant to attack, and has an astonishing number of features. Guess I'm not a "serious" email user then. Half the time I'm still using Tbird. > Those who receive large volumes of mail should be using procmail > to pre-sort it, and they should be aware of RFC 2919 (and thus > the existence of List-Id) as an excellent means for doing so. > These two tools in combination make dealing with large amounts > of traffic to large numbers of mailing lists quite easy. Not familiar with procmail. A quick perusal of the manpage seems to indicate this is a local mail "processor" for sorting things, as opposed to say something on the mailserver itself? -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281