How about mail filters? I think this option is available with all e-mail services? You could set the filter by going to mail options. You could, for example, choose to move all the incoming mails from a certain sender to go into a specified folder.
lalitha. --- NaChaKi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Possible choices: "Individual" Blogs, Forum, > Alternate grouping of messages elsewhere, Bulleted > lists with "links" to details > > * By "Individual" Blogs, I mean to suggest blogs by > individuals and/or by purpose (education, health, > etc.), or by chapters. (Blog links should always be > appended to the message. > > * By Forum, I mean to refer to a standard bulletin > board a.ka. discussion forum kind of setup (Members > may have seen several such; Bharat Uday Mission's > http://www.echarcha.com/ is an example.) Each > purpose can be a "topic", and each case therein can > be a thread within the topic. (By choosing this, > we're essentially moving out of Yahoo! Groups, so to > say, though we can keep the group's mails "alive".) > > * By "Alternate grouping", I mean to point to places > like http://www.gmane.org/ or > http://www.mail-archive.com/ where one can archive > the mails in searchable format, grouping them (as a > subject-line list) by thread, date, sender, etc. > While the mail-archive interface seems simple and > "subscription" only takes listing our group there, > gmane.org offers various styles of viewing messages, > including blog-style (and also offers a listing in > mail-archive.com too). Our own archived messages can > also be imported to these places. And, in this case, > the Yahoo! Group still remains but the list-serv > like archiving style will give members to read what > they want and whenever they want. (People can choose > "No Email" in Yahoo! Groups and still read, and > respond, from Yahoo! and/or Gmane.) *I am currently > working on this. No duplication please!* > > *** > > More, for the interested/patient/openminded/curious > members: > > I was a proponent of more e-mails, and I still am, > if I could say so. I have at least 15 e-mail > addresses that I check more than ten times each each > day ("each" is repeated NOT by mistake). In all mail > accounts put together, I read about 200+ e-mails a > day. Of the 62 Yahoo! Groups I subscribe to, 20 I > moderate, and at least 15 of 62 are active. ...Why > all this "I" stuff? I am coming to the point. Of > late, with other things in my life and mind, I am > unable to look at this mail account - which is > intended only for my Yahoo! Groups, and for all of > them - more than once a day sometimes. What happens > then? I see more than 150 unread messages, with more > than 50 "Yahoo! Group notifications" (most of them > sent to moderators only) in this one group. 50+ > messages each day, that simply means. I start with > the foremost e-mail and go up as I read. I pass some > e-mails where I want to reply or make little > comments, and I postpone the idea as I first want to > see if anyone else already > wrote "my" view, and thus continue reading all the > messages, some of which - no offence meant but only > indicating the fact - are lengthy. What does this > lead to? I read at least 50 mails *at the end of my > day*, and I lose the enthusiasm to find the > particular message I wanted to reply to and finally > I let it pass. One can easily imagine what happens > to someone who doesn't check (group's) e-mail > messages more than once or twice a week. > > I agree, very very rightly, that our group's main > mode of contact is through the Internet, but that > doesn't mean our group can afford to supply each one > an ample bandwidth/access to the Internet! I also > accept this fact equally rightly! (This is not to > say someone else here does not!) In fact, I think I > did write once, after a month's gap, that I had to > delete 800 unread messages or so, to at least start > being a part of things that're happening currently. > Space is not an issue in e-mail accounts these days, > but the fact is that half the people don't even use > filters to rightly group messages automatically into > folders or some such "pockets". People don't make > their choices most of the time, and plainly blame > what/who can seem to take the blame - that's the > infamous "crowd behavior". Similarly, one has one's > choices of restricting e-mails - Daily Digest, Web > Only/No Email, setting up filters, etc. but they > just don't do what seems right or better for their > own selves. If I > chose to read 200 messages each day, it's not a > complaint - it's MY CHOICE! Make yours too! > > All said, I'd still make this point importantly and > surely: In a group like this where tens of concerned > people are "in the field" running around, updating > each other by phone first asking to e-mail summaries > to the group before they can come online, and with > three major and two or three nascent chapters, > should one not be READY to receive 50-100 mails each > day?! Make YOUR accommodations to suit your style > and choice. At least, that's something people can do > before they start complaining. And then... there're > alternative measures like I wrote. There are > alternatives, yes, but alternatives should not come > to the fore just for the sake of it! Let's make our > own efforts first before we fall back to Plan-B's! > > NaChaKi ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! 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