On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Al <oss.el...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Jake > > [snip]
> > Why say that "lists are dead early"? This list I find takes a certain > > amount of maintenance to keep up-to-date, otherwise it grows to an > > unmanageable number of e-mails in my Inbox. If anything, it's "too > > Well that is the first advantage of a newsreader. It does not spam > your mailbox. You select yourself what you want to read by the header. > The other contents are never delivered to you, eat up neither traffic > nor space. People don't really need to complain of to much traffic. > [SNIP SNIP] > Al > You get the same advantage with some email accounts, if you use them right. For instance, this account on gmail is used for mailing lists only. Because it's gmail I can use filters to attach labels naming the list it comes from. Any spam that gets through will be in the minority that do not have a label attached, and I can ditch them forthwith. Because it's gmail, I have a private archive of all of my mailing lists going back to 2004, and I'm only using 35% of my (constantly increasing) 7.8GB allocation. If I want, I can search on this stuff without getting false positives from lists I don't subscribe to. I can also filter some mailgroups to go directly to the archive, so they only speak when spoken to. I use my ISP for personal mail, and a work account for work. My point: it's easier and more pleasant to find the right tool for the job, rather than complain about what anyone else is doing. For me, case closed and I can go back to doing what I want. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
