1. Are you aware that google mail and other mail like hotmail and yahoo offer filters?
2. Are you aware that you can send emails directly to these folder so they never appear in your inbox? 3. Are you aware that these email folders will have a number next to them stating how many you have unread? The combination of Archiving all these emails into a folder and then being able to search through them all via keywords, attachments, date, from, to, starred, unstarred etc etc etc makes for a resource much like a forum (in my opinion - butter than phpbb3 etc), just you can access it anywhere you can get your email. It would be the same as searching the google group for Away3D just from your inbox. Which at the end of the day is list of posts which you can search, same functionality as a forum. Personally I love it this way, I have over 4000 emails in the folder, a resource I love, my first place of searching if I ever have a question or an issue, the next is google directly and then I post on the google group. GMail guide: 1. Create a Label eg. Away3D (Choose a colour for it, so it shows up in your inbox neatly) 2. At the top next o the button search the web, there is a text link labeled "create a filter" 3. In the from field enter "[email protected]" and click next step button 4. Tick the box apply the label and choose the "Away3D" label you just created 5. Now if you want to auto skip the inbox and go to your Away3D mail folder tick the box "Skup the inbox" 6. Tick the box right hand side of the create filter button labeled "Also apply filter to x conversations below", this will label all the emails you have had from the group previously and perform the actions on all them too. 7. Click create filter As for yahoo and hotmail, the process would be similar. A forum would be nice, don't get me wrong, but I don't feel I am missing out on anything having it this way. D On 26 March 2011 20:35, Páll Zoltán <[email protected]> wrote: > i agree, tho Gmail's Priority Inbox helps a lot :) > > Z. > > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Jesse Nicholson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Agreed, it's kinda starting to piss me off I almost unsubscribed cause >> I'm tired of getting 10 million emails a day. I have contributed and >> enjoy doing it but I don't want to be forced to get every single >> message. A forum is a perfect idea I think the fact that you have to >> go digging in pretty much any email client for newsgroup settings says >> it all. >> > >
