I think it is a little difficult to cover this with the multitude of email clients about. they all filter differently.
many people are even reading them in *gasp* winders machines. me, i am an advocate of keeping my mail on an imap machine and filtering it once via procmail. The client's filtering system doesn't get a look in. then i can access off any client on any machine, or over the web using squirrel, and the mail is all sorted the same way. However even the setup for procmail is subtly different depending on the imap server software. On Wed, 26 May 2004 12:55:08 +1200 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that when we finnally have a CLUG meeting, a tutorial on busy > list management might be a good idea. > > There seem to be many people on our list that have no idea about > filtering and threading. IMO this list absolutely *needs* to have these > utilities applied. > > One person cannot read every single message of an even moderately busy > list. If they are subscribed to more than one of these lists then it may > be physically impossible! > They need to be able to pick and choose which threads they want to read. > > It's also why threadjacking is so annoying and also email clients that > trash threads. > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > This is interesting and a little sad. One of Don's justifications for > > persistently asking questions which some people found annoying was to > > keep the list traffic up, so people could see something happening. > > I also like what Don is doing because he asks questions which evoke > answers that have filled in holes for me. > > (I did not know about the id command I used to hunt around in shadow > file and groups) > > Keep it up Don! > > > > > Ironically here is a subscriber who has unsubbed because of too much > > traffic. > > Being able to apply the tools is very important to reduce info-overload > > > > > See you and thanks for your contributions Lance (if you are still > > listening) > > > > ditto > > > -- > Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer > Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, > University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha > Private Bag 4800, > Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
