On Friday, January 04, 2013 05:44:59 AM [email protected] wrote: > > -How is digging through 90 emails "Easy management"? The volume of email we've been having the past few days is atypical to say the least. We're having a large event this weekend, and happened to have a topic come up that spurred a large discussion. A typical number of emails is closer to 5-10 per day. If you are dissatisfied with the amount of email you are getting from the list, please let me know, and I can either walk you through setting up a filter to direct all emails to a folder, or show you how to change your subscription to digest mode. Digest mode will send one email per day per list that you are subscribed to. > -This is not a dicussion list, this is an email, at least on my end, What > are you using to veiw this discusstion list? But it is. It's an email list (running Mailman, described by list.org as "the GNU Mailing List Manager") that happens to be named discuss, and its purpose is for discussion of topics relevant to the space. Personally, I am using my mail client to view the list, but others may prefer to read through in its archive form which is viewable at the link below:
http://synhak.org/pipermail/discuss/ I understand the frustration of getting a flood of emails in the morning when you get up, believe me. Between all of my email accounts, I get anywhere between 50 and 200 emails per day. Going through them is time consuming. But what I do to make sure that my entire day isn't spent reading email is to structure my email accounts so that I can go through it quickly enough to read the information that is important. For example, I have a folder for email lists, and each list gets its own subfolder, like so: SYN/HAK Lists --announce --discuss --etc That way, if I want to see what is happening on the discuss list, I can quickly go through that folder. Again, if you want help setting it up, let me know and I will gladly help you. > -Forum? why not just use a BBS? ( I'm kidding) I understand that you're kidding, but to address the issue of why we use lists, not forums, I will say this: When we were originally setting up the infrastructure of SYN/HAK back in July of 2011, we had a discussion if we wanted lists of forums. The decision was to have lists. If you or anyone else would like to propose that we switch to forums, you are free to, but I will openly admit that I much prefer lists for a group of this size and activity level. Just about everyone these days has an email account. Not everyone wants to register on a forum. > There has to be a more organized way. Exspeacally if we get more members. I'm not going to lie, I've been on much more active lists than this (200-500 emails per day), and my organization strategy (labels/filters for each list) just works. Pop into the list when you want to read it, and when you're done, either mark the entire list as read, or just go back to your inbox. Long story short, if you feel like you're getting way too much email, let me know, and I'll help you figure something out. Regards, Chris Egeland
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