sorry nicole, I thought I was sending this to the list. :)
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum
Date: Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:23 am
From: Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:24 am, Nicole Lewis wrote:
> While daily deleting unopened a large percentage of newbie
> correspondence<snip>
> Here, each thread is collated onto a single html page, which can include
> photos & drawings,
> so that one can read the sequence of contributions without wading past a
> clutter of repeating material.
It was a long time before I understood how to use filters and directories
to my advantage. My system (on KMail), which is not perfect but is
perfectly simple, goes something like this:
if my name appears in a message, it stays in the inbox and filtering stops
(this way I get replies to my comments, even if I've forgotten I commented
on that thread)
if a message comes from a certain mailing list, it gets sorted into that
mailing list's folder, and filtering continues
I have another filter ("dump") which marks message read and moves it to the
trash, to which I add the subject line of any thread I have absolutely no
interest in (had seven threads in it at one time recently, coming from two
seperate mailing lists)
My inbox sorts message by date of arrival; my "mailing list" folders sort
by thread. This way I can see quickly if I need to add a thread to my
"dump" filter
So far this has really helped manage the 300+ emails I get daily :)
--
Julie
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