At 11:24 AM -0500 2/5/99, Margaret Levine Young wrote:
> I agree! I realized a few months ago that I want an e-mail program that
> will display by mailing list messages in a very different way that my
> personal messages.
I've had that for years. I use eudora, but any mail client with even
rudimentary filtering can do this. I filter all of my mail lists into
separate folders, one per list.
I even take it futher using procmail -- since I read my personal
e-mail address both at home and at work, I use a set of procmail
rules to parse out e-mail between mail to be left at home, and mail
to be read at work, so that stuff (like list-managers, for instance)
that I don't want to deal with at work during the day doesn't even
appear in my mailbox until I'm ready for it.
By filtering all of the list mail out of my main mailbox, I can
easily ignore it until I'm ready to read lists, so none of it gets in
the way of the "real" e-mail.
> I want to be able to track who posts on what topics, who
> posts how often, who I've decided to ignore, who I particularly like, etc.
Ignoring is also trivial with rudimentary filters.
> If programs were widely available that were designed to make it easy to
> participate in an e-mail-based discussion -- supporting the user's efforts
> to keep track of who's who and what we're talking about -- mailing lists
> would be far more useful.
these tools have existed for a while -- Eudora, Claris eMailer, most
mail clients do a huge part of what you're asking for, and have. On
the unix side, there are mailers like Pine, or you can move to
procmail if you want to get really fancy. This technology actually
isn't new, unless you use AOL's mail.
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