One more tip: Train your spam filter to catch messages about excessively active topics (Linux vs. Gnu/Linux comes to mind.) That way, your UUG mail folder is left with mostly only the interesting stuff. :)
On Monday, February 09, 2004 22:54, Michael Torrie wrote: > There are a few new people on the list lately, and several > people have expressed frustration over the amount of traffic > that hits their inbox. Therefore I thought I'd just post this > little tip on dealing with the volume. Basically make a > folder for the UUG list traffic and then set your e-mail > client or your procmail recipe to automatically divert UUG > list messages to the Trash, I mean the UUG folder. This way > your inbox doesn't get cluttered and you can then, at your > leisure, read what you want and throw the rest away. Most of > us already do this, but I thought I'd bring this up as I know > that some of our new subscribees are just having their inbox > flooded with GNU/Linux stuff. > > Michael ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
