> >I'm back again... >Even I don't post very frequently I hope you noticed
> >> my absence :-) > >> Of course we noticed your absence. Now that you're
> back, we have >> nobody to talk about ;-}. And we are honored to know
> that you > >Well, that ;-} makes me suspect your answer belogngs to the
> >diplomatic series :-)
> That's my international flair.
I never thought I was international.
> >BTW I bet you are an email filter wizard!!!
> Oh yes. I would be dead without filters. I have a file for
> major sections (i.e., marketing, consulting, profession\al,
> international, etc) and a box for every newslist (even those I
> unsubbed from) within those groups and a box for other stuff.
> Anything that doesn't fall into a filtered box automatically goes
> to a spam box, where I can review subject or from whom, before
> deleting. It works well. If somebody sends me a message that is
> not addressed to a list address or to me, then it must be spam.
> Eudora Pro does a great job with filters and handling multiple accounts
But how can you filter emails from the same lists? I mean by
subject?
This is the real problem! In 200 emails the topics could be 30 or 40
unfortunately not evryone try to write a good helpful subject.
Sometimes even if I try I really fail to find a short description of
what I'm writing, I'm so cnfused by myself :-)
So there are at least 20 emails you have to read at least (if 50% of
the writer choses a good subject) to know what they are talking
about. On a good list 20% of the topics are interesting to you so
20+(4x6)=44 emails on 200 + 10 due to unretainable curiosity.
You take a look just to the first 20 in 10sec. Then you'll spend 1
minute and a half on the other 24 and 30 sec on the remaining 10...
20x20+90x24+30x10=107 min. About 2h!!!
Suppose you'll stop reading jus because you're curious anyway
you'll waste more than 15% of your time reading unuseful thing.
15% is not too much if you're dealing with 200 emails but it
becomes annoying when the emails are 400.
Is there any AI program to filter emails?
Unfortunately you can't kill email filtering keywords related to topics
you aren't interested in.
Suppose I'm not interested in graphics but just in HTML coding if I
sink evry email containing the word graphics I'll sink 50% of my
emails.
I think something could be learned from anti spam program.
BTW on my most important site my email address is not
published, anyway I continue to receive spam but it is less than
10% of the spam we get with the published email address (XXX
porno spam and any other idiot thing).
> I used to count the number of messages received by list, but
> stopped that in May (when my shrink cured my OCD problem).
How did he succeed?
> That's how I knew I was averaging 537 message a day. WCA, BTW is
> the second most active list, with Market-L being the most active.
No pain no gain.
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