Re: Do sorted messages exist?
On 2003-02-27 21:26, ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like you I just signed up and was amazed at how much mail this list genereated. After some googeling, I found that procmail and mutt was the answer. Have a look at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ A procmail recipe with [EMAIL PROTECTED] will catch all of these emails and you can throw them into a separate unix mbox. You should probably filter based on the Sender: header instead. The procmail rule is a lot cleaner and it will only catch mail that is delivered to your address as a result of the subscription to the list. :0 H * ^sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freebsd-questions This way if I hit 'g' in my mutt window and reply both to the list and to you, messages that are intended to reach you and not the list will end up in your `Inbox' folder, while list stuff will be filtered to the right place. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Do sorted messages exist?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a response. Thank you. A lot of people have mentioned the digestified version of -questions. That, plus a UMA that can dedigestify and sort messages (VM will do that) is one possible solution to the problem. Another is to read the messages as a newsgroup. Most newsreaders thread these days, so you should get sorted messages out of that. It doesn't necessarily work well for answering questions because of the missing Cc: headers. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Do sorted messages exist?
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isnip Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? You could write a procmail recipe, but I don;t know how succesful it would be. Filtering on Subject would be marred by several things: - Some people don't give a subject - Some people give a useless subject like Question or Help - Some people tag messages to threads that are on a completely different topic from the preceding messages in the thread. Filtering on content would also come with hazhards, because of the threaded nature of the discussions it would be one hell of a job to collect the whole thread, as things get snipped, or lose things in your search criteria. In short, I would say you can either ask for digests, or do a search on the web archives. I may be wrong of course, but I do not see how it could be done. Maybe a KWIC index ? Mmmm..something to work on during the long winter nights. It might be possible for you to filter out things you definitely do *not* want to see, that may be better than filtering on things you do want to see. Mmmm... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Do sorted messages exist?
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any This and many more lists are googled. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8group=sol.lists.freebsd.questions -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Gary Dunn _/ _/ Open Slate Project _/ _/ http://openslate.sourceforge.net/ _/ _/ http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/_/ _/ Honolulu _/ _/ registered Linux user #273809 _/ _/ _/ _/ This tagline is umop apisdn. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Do sorted messages exist?
On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a response. Thank you. Like you I just signed up and was amazed at how much mail this list genereated. After some googeling, I found that procmail and mutt was the answer. Have a look at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ A procmail recipe with [EMAIL PROTECTED] will catch all of these emails and you can throw them into a separate unix mbox. Regards, Brian Roberts To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Do sorted messages exist?
On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any I also don't really see any option like this. There are digest summaries for some of the mailing lists. That may be an option for you. What you may want to try is get a threading mail reader that will group by topic. A mail reader with filters is good too. I do that then I delete in whole chunks conversations I have no interest in. I can get through a days worth of FreeBSD question in 30 min or less that way if I want to. You could do that and only download the mail once or twice a day so that more of the mail threads by topic and you can delete more. person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a response. Thank you. Thankfully there are a lot of people that answer questions that are much more knowledgeable than I. It's a pretty altruisitc group. You're welcome from me certainly. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
