>With hotmail or yahoo, and gmail, you're trying to work through a >keyhole. To handle not only a mailing list but the Internet itself >you require an Internet Service Provider that provides you with an >email account so that you can use a proper email program. > > Please dont give out misleading information like this. GMail lets you send and recive with any normal email program for free (unlike hotmail/yahoo)
>That means you can make multiple mailboxes and use filters to send >incoming messages direct to those mailboxes where you can read them >later, or never, at your leisure. Biofuel list messages go to the >"Biofuel" mailbox. > > I have over 20 email accounts that I do this with Thunderbird, Very nice program. 5 of them are GMail. >With real email programs you can list messages in mailboxes by >author, by date, or by subject, and they have useful search >functions, so you can search your mailboxes for information. You >start to build up your own information resource, without even doing >anything. > >Nearly everybody has much more hard-disk space than they can use - >don't delete stuff, just leave it there. Computers are fast, it won't >even slow down your searches, and you have no way of knowing in >advance what may later prove useful information, so there's no need >to "delete" anything. > > Very true. I have 512GB of space, 10gb free, time for some more 250GB drives >NOW you can handle a mailing list. > > Its a start. >Gmail shmeemail. > > Jeromie >Best wishes > >Keith Addison >Journey to Forever >KYOTO Pref., Japan >http://journeytoforever.org/ >Biofuel list owner > > > > > >>Alex >>Have you considered opening a Gmail account? >><http://www.gmail.com>www.gmail.com >>We've discussed it a few times here, but the best features are the >>'threading' of messages and the 2660 MB (and growing) space. Better >>with individual emails rather than digests, I've found. >> >>I could not imagine using hotmail to receive discussion emails >>anymore...and I'm switching the ones I get at Yahoo to Gmail! >> >>-- >>Thanks, >>PC >> >>He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch >> >>History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have >>exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban >> >> _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
