Google mail does it also.

Jim McAlpine


On 6/30/06, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Seriously, what I have found that really helps is I filter all the
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> postings into their own Outlook folder, which I set up as "View by
> conversation topic." This view sorts say 100 new e-mails into perhaps a
> dozen topics (subject lines). I then just delete unread with one
keystroke
> any topic that I know nothing about and/or does not interest me. I can
get
> rid of 90 e-mails in about 5 seconds.
I do exactly the same thing in Mozilla Thunderbird mail client, except
they call it "view by thread" (same thing in Netscape).

I can delete a thread that doesn't interest me with 2 keystrokes.  Of
course, with topic drift, I might sometimes delete msgs with
uninteristic subject lines, but I'll take that chance

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