-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:00:24PM -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> 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"?). outlook is also not rfc compliant. one fun thing about this is you can make outlook say bad things about itself. ;-) > Fortunately, most modern mail readers can sort in threaded order for you. not outlook. that's one thing that makes this list a pain for me. half of it comes up threaded and the other half (those messages from outlook users) is not. this is because outlook does not set the threading headers like in-reply-to and references. it is much easier to scan through a high volume list when, as you say, you can place all related messages together. sadly, this doesn't happen here. if anyone cares, my setup is to have procmail neatly file evey message in its folder. i then tell mutt about all the folders and have mutt thread the messages. i also use spamassassin to bounce spam. i really like my setup; however, i run on linux which with its many tools makes this sort of thing much easier. i've heard that cygwin makes windows more versitile, fwiw. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ZP2EggA8sH0iRXQRAl+wAJ9INQMI+MNY3/EpYBBqrfUJDCjNUACdGIN4 LWyomLiaggODnAVcU5Ej6bg= =4/0N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
