I am new to this list and to lists in general and I am wondering how to work with thiis list so that I only follow those threads that either I can reasonably help on or that I am interested in?
I have just joined several other lists as well and my mail box is getting absolutely flooded with mail. I go through each one by hand, keeping the one's that I can help with or that I am interested in, and trashing the rest but it's getting to be quite a chore.
Is there an easier way to work with lists such as this one? I know this isn't a Gentoo question as such but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
There are a variety of tools available to help with mailing lists.
Depending on your email client, you might be able to apply sorting rules to your incoming mail. This is probably the easiest thing to set up. I know that pine, evolution and mozilla mail have rules. I would imagine that mutt and kmail do as well (though I could be wrong).
If your email cliend doesn't have rules, you should look into a package called procmail. This is a very powerful mail sorting/redistribution software that will allow you to do just about anything with incoming mail. However, setup is more difficult than simple mail-client based rules.
Once you have something with which you can apply rules to mail, what you probably want to do is put mail from each mailing list into its own folder, but that is just my own suggestion. You can, of course, do whatever you think makes your mail easiest to deal with.
HTH
-- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
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