As someone who'd used web-based forums exclusively, I've struggled a bit to get used to this email list approach. I was intitialy put-off joining at all, and I still can't work out how to make the converstation thing work (with Outlook). All the Re: Re: Re: s don't help at all. What's even more of a pain is that I can't search for keywords through my saved mail list (I have to used the read-only web forum to do that).
But the one thing I find most annoying, is that almost every post includes many of the previous posts, and I have to wade through the whole thing to work out what (and where) the new bit is. It seems so much clearer on a web forum where there's generally no need repeat other people's posts. I know I'm as guilty of this as most others, because it's just the way most email is set up to respond. On the plus side, it makes me feel I must be really important to get all this mail ;-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karel Tromp Sent: 05 April 2005 08:57 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Better forum please! Indeed I could use a filter, but when presenting post as converstations (thunderbird) other mail would be presented as conversations too. Its a per program setting. Therefore and amongst other things (back-up, reability etc.) I am using Gmail for this sort of things. On Apr 5, 2005 12:34 AM, Dave Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, you're right but I don't want to have all the mail in my private > mailbox where it would drown my other, more important, mail. > > I have a filter that runs on newly-received mail and throws any > containing "[slim]" into a separate folder. I am curious if there is > something about your setup that prevents this approach? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
