2008/8/6 Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> > > Harold, my use is similar to Bob's. I just find it less "intrusive" to have > mailing list traffic *not* filling up my mail boxes. News is a separate part > of TB for me and I deal with it differently. > > Email is more direct and - this is my personal opinion of course - requires > me to respond in a more immediate manner. News I look at when I feel like it > and respond when I feel like it. > > I saw the hundreds of Terrance of messages, ignored them, selected all of > them and pressed "mark as read". Job done.
> I have a big hard disk so the fact TB doesn't delete stuff is neither here > nor there. In fact I never delete news messages - searching back over time > for those *really interesting snippets* is quite important sometimes. > > > <snip> Thanks. I just invented and registered a special e-mail address for this list and configured a separate account for it in TB. It has its own Inbox. This way none of the list traffic gets anywhere near my other mail. I find it easier because with mail I can filter/tag messages from unsubscribed posters so I know to cc: them. Can't do that with TB News. I thought you had found a way to tell TB News to not download messages meeting filter criteria so that you would be able to not even see the terrance stuff. I wasn't thinking about the disk space but about the size of the list of messages. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
