Thanks David and Robert ! I am currently experimenting using two methods : (1) Gmail for threading and archiving using filters. (2) Using Thunderbird as a newsgroup reader by subscribing to gmane.
I plan to do these both for few weeks before picking one of them. Regards, Saravanan On 07/15/2011 04:53 PM, David Smith wrote: > I use filters in gmail as well, and it works great. Here's my filter > for r-devel: > > Has the words: list:"r-devel.r-project.org <http://r-devel.r-project.org>" > Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "r-devel", Never send it to Spam > > A really easy way to create mailing list filters in Gmail is to click > "show details" on the From line of the email, and then click "Filter > messages from this mailing list". > > Hope this helps, > # David Smith > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Robert M. Flight <rfligh...@gmail.com > <mailto:rfligh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Saravanan, > > You don't need a separate GMail account, as others suggested. I use > GMail as my client, and I have FILTERS set up to catch any R-Help, etc > (really anything that comes from a specific address), archive the > message so I don't see it in my inbox (unless someone is replying > directly to me in addition to sending to R-help), and then I can view > the emails at my leisure. > > HTH, > > -Robert > > Robert M. Flight, Ph.D. > University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory > University of Louisville > Louisville, KY > > PH 502-852-1809 (HSC) > PH 502-852-0467 (Belknap) > EM robert.fli...@louisville.edu <mailto:robert.fli...@louisville.edu> > EM rfligh...@gmail.com <mailto:rfligh...@gmail.com> > > Williams and Holland's Law: > If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by > statistical methods. > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 15:26, Saravanan > <saravanan.thirumuruganat...@gmail.com > <mailto:saravanan.thirumuruganat...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Thanks Steve and Brian ! > > > > Probably, I will create a gmail account for mailing lists and > let it take > > care of the threading. > > > > Regards, > > Saravanan > > > > On 07/07/2011 12:02 PM, Brian G. Peterson wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am > >>> sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more > suitable. I > >>> am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list > management. I have > >>> my options set that it sends a email digest. One thing I find > is that > >>> the digest consists of emails that ordered temporarlly. For eg > lets say > >>> there are two threads t1 and t2 and the emails arrive as e1 of > t1, e2 of > >>> t2, e3 of t3 . The digest lists them as e1,e2 and then e3. Is it > >>> possible to somehow configure it as T1 : e1,e3 and then T2 : e2 ? > >>> > >>> This is the digest format that google groups uses which is > incredibly > >>> helpful as you can read all the messages in a thread. > Additionally, it > >>> also helpfully includes a header that lists all the threads in > digest so > >>> that you can jump to the one you are interested in. I checked the > >>> mailman options but could not find any. > >>> > >>> Does anyone else have the same issue? It is not a big issue in > R-devel > >>> but R-help is a much more high traffic mailing list. I am > interested in > >>> hearing how you read/filter your digest mails in either R-help > or other > >>> high volume mailing lists. > >> > >> This really has nothing to do with R, but rather mailman. > >> > >> I use folders, filtered on the server using SIEVE and/or > procmail. No > >> digest required. I get the mails immediately, not later in the > day or > >> the next day, and can use all my various email clients easily to > >> read/respond. > >> > >> mailman supports a MIME digest format that includes a table of > contents > >> with links to each MIME part. mailman does not support a threaded > >> digest, to the best of my knowledge. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> - Brian > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > -- > David M Smith <da...@revolutionanalytics.com > <mailto:da...@revolutionanalytics.com>> > VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com > Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
