I read lists. Lots of lists. The list server to which I have the most subscriptions is Debian, at 27. I've got many more lists I'd like to subscribe to, and my approach to subscribing has been to subscribe to 2-3 lists, get used to their traffic flow, then subscribe to a couple more. Rinse and repeat until I'm subscribed to all my target lists.
This brings me to one of my problems. Using mutt's 'subscribe' and
'lists' functions, I've been able to mark every Debian list -- even
those the Project hasn't even envisioned yet -- as known [1], and some
of my most oft-read lists as subscribed by manally specifying each list
manually.
At that point, I had an eureka moment: Simply yank the 'lists'
specification and use it for the 'subscribe' line too. I thought about
it for a while and declared it suboptimal, as it marked EVERY Debian
list as subscribed, which I didn't want to do.
My second attempt at rectifying the problem of telling mutt to which
lists I'm subscribed by hand _works_, yes, and doesn't go overboard [2],
I feel there's more that could be done. I'm at wit's end trying to
figure out how to make it more effective, though, besides the obvious:
write [2] as a shell script and make my 'subscribe' line call it.
It may help to know my directory structure [3].
Overall, what I'm looking to find out is: In the collective wisdom, is
my method effective? And if it's not, any pointers to any more effective
methods than what I'm doing?
Finally, I'd like to shout out to Michael Elkins and the other
developers, and to the maintainers of mutt packages for various
operating systems, for putting blood, sweat, tears and many a CTSed
wrist into writing this client.
[1] 'lists -group Debian ^debian-...@lists\\.debian\\.org$'. Cribbed
from Debian developers' reference, if I recall.
[2] subscribe `echo -n 'debian-('; for file in $(find -O3 ~/mail
-mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name 'debian-*' -printf '%f\n'
| sed -e 's/debian-//g'); do echo -n $file\|; done; echo -n '^H';
echo ")@lists\\\.debian\\\.org"`
All one line. The '^H' is a C-h, not caret and capital H. My eyes
bleed just reading that, much less posting it!
[3] All my mail's in "~/mail", in Maildir format, with lists, VIPs, etc,
in directories below that. Below is the output of tree, munged for
space-saving.
/home/bryans/mail
debian-announce
{cur,new,tmp}
debian-boot
{cur,new,tmp}
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