Just to add my tuppence worth, I've just discovered that if you're
using Mac OSX you can have Mail filter the mails into a separate
folder and then View -> Organize by thread
Feels nicer than Thunderbird for some reason.
Tom
On 17 Feb 2007, at 23:02, NoOp wrote:
On 02/16/2007 02:28 AM, Roland Sapsford wrote:
Hi
I am genuinely trying to make a transition to Open Source but I am
quite
challenged by the need to stay subscribed to a list that now comprises
8000+ messages in the relatively short time since I joined. I keep
the
message so that I can try and use the list as a searchable resource
rather than just email blindly to it, but this is becoming
impractical.
I am sure you get asked this all the time but why a list rather than a
wiki or something similar. Most other open source material I use has a
wiki-based help system that is (relatively) easy to search. If
there is
a searchable archive of these messages somewhere that would also do
the
trick but I have only been able to locate bug reports so far.
A pointer to the last time you answered this dumb question would be
greatly appreciated ;-)
All the best
Roland Sapsford
Use a newsreader instead (Thunderbird will work just fine :-).
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html
Scroll down to the start of the list table, right hand column,
Newsgroup:
news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions
Simple, easy to keep track of the threads, etc.
Basic info on Gmane is here: http://gmane.org/
I see you are using Thunderbird, so:
1. Edit|Account Settings
2. Add Account|Newsgroup account
3. your name, email address etc.
4. Newsgroup Server: news.gmain.org (account name same)
5. Finish
6. Scroll down to the new news server account: news.gmaine.org
7. Right click|Subscribe - let it load all of the groups & click refresh
8. Show items that contain: openoffice
9. Tick the boxes on the right of the groups you want to subscribe to
(gmane.comp.openoffice.questions is this one)
10. You'll now see the newsgoups you've just subscribed to under the
news.gmane.org folder, click on gmain.comp.openoffice.questions,
download 500 headers. Find your subject & msg. Reply to my response.
gmane will send you a confirmation email before your message gets
postesd - reply to that email & your reply to my post will appear
shortly. That's it :-)
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