Excerpts from Justin Hammond's message of 2013-12-12 08:23:24 -0800: > I am a developer who is currently having troubles keeping up with the > mailing list due to volume, and my inability to organize it in my client. > I am nearly forced to use Outlook 2011 for Mac and I have read and > attempted to implement > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette but it is still a lot > to deal with. I read once a topic or wiki page on using X-Topics but I > have no idea how to set that in outlook (google has told me that the > feature was removed).
Justin I'm sorry that the volume is catching up with you. I have a highly optimized email-list-reading work-flow using sup-mail and a few filters, and I still spend 2 hours a day sifting through all of the lists I am on (not just openstack lists). It is worth it to keep aware and to avoid duplicating efforts, even if it means I have to hit the "kill this thread" button a lot. Whomever is forcing you to use this broken client, I suggest that you explain to them your situation. It is the reason for your problems. Note that you can just subscribe to the list from a different address than you post from, and configure a good e-mail client like Thunderbird to set your From: address so that you still are representing your organization the way you'd like to. So if it is just a mail server thing, that is one way around it. Also the setup I use makes use of offlineimap, which can filter things for you, so if you have IMAP access to your inbox, you can use that and then just configure your client for local access (I believe Thunderbird even supports a local Maildir mode). Anyway, you _MUST_ have a threaded email client that quotes well for replies. If not, I'm afraid it will remain unnecessarily difficult to participate on this list. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
