On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Shapira, Yoav wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:05:56 -0400
> From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: list volume
>
> Hi,
> I've found the outlook group by subject feature extremely useful for
> this. In fact this feature for this list alone has somewhat changed my
> opinion of outlook in general ;) When grouped by threads, you can
> easily delete tons of messages you're not interested in, without having
> to scan the individual messages.
>
Sort-by-thread is the only way to deal with high-volume mailing lists.
However, I don't consider it a valid reason to use Outlook (can you spell
"security sinkhole"?).
Fortunately, most modern mail readers can sort in threaded order for you.
> Other people I know filter the subject for keywords or interest and keep
> only matching messages. Whereas others filter for keywords of
> disinterest (bad English today), and delete those.
>
> Yoav Shapira
> Millennium ChemInformatics
>
Craig
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mona Wong-Barnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:02 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: list volume
> >
> >
> >> there are
> >> literally 100's of postings from other members of the Tomcat
> newsgroup,
> >
> > This is a real problem for me as I spend hours ever day just
> scanning
> >and deleting postins from this mailing list. I'm considering getting
> off
> >this
> >list. How do other people deal with the volume?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Mona
> >
> >==================================================================
> >Mona Wong-Barnum
> >National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
> >University of California, San Diego
> >http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/
> >
> >"The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off"
> > A Landmark instructor
> >==================================================================
> >
> >
> >
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