Really Guys?  Is the delete key on your keyboard that hard to find and push? 
 This whole thread should have been labeled “OT"

     Ron Genovesi
     n3...@coastside.net





> On Jun 16, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote:
> 
> One approach is to have two lists. An elecraft-announce list would only allow 
> posts from Elecraft. It might allow some moderated posts. An elecraft-discuss 
> list would be like the current list.
> 
> This was a common convention when I first started following email lists 35 
> years ago.
> 
> wunder
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>> On Jun 16, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Don Wilhelm <donw...@embarqmail.com 
>> <mailto:donw...@embarqmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> As far as I know, there is no way to do that for digests.  But if you are 
>> downloading the digest to your computer and not wanting it on your 
>> smartphone or other web based application, then read on.
>> 
>> If you have an email client on your computer, IMHO subscribing to the digest 
>> is a cumbersome way to view the Elecraft email list.
>> Subscribe to individual emails.
>> Create a folder in your email client for the Elecraft emails.
>> Set a filter to place all incoming emails with [Elecraft] into that folder.
>> Presto -- you have your own digest on your computer.
>> 
>> If you do not want to see the OT posts, simply create a filter to place 
>> anything with "OT" into into your trash.
>> 
>> Mozilla Thunderbird works nicely and is free - multiplatform as well.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>> 
>> On 6/16/2018 11:20 AM, Thomas Schaefer wrote:
>>> While inevitably I will hear from people that I should just click hit the 
>>> DELETE key, I get the digest form of this email list. One cannot really 
>>> delete only the OT posts when using the digest.
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to have the qth.net list software 
>>> automatically remove posts that start with OT in the subject?
>>> I subscribe to this list to get information about the Elecraft line of 
>>> equipment (KPA1500 is the latest). I am not sure if it is boredom or lack 
>>> of other outlets that folks believe they can post things that have 
>>> absolutely nothing to do with Elecraft. For the record, as I have been in 
>>> the Elecraft dog house before for mentioning this, I am not suggesting what 
>>> people should post.
>>> I am asking a legitimate question if anyone knows a way I could mercifully 
>>> make it stop—short of unsubscribing and losing the actual useful content 
>>> otherwise. I suspect I could switch to individual emails and simply setup a 
>>> rule to automatically delete anything that starts with OT. Then just delete 
>>> posts by people that post things unrelated to Elecraft.
>>> Thanks in advance if anyone knows a way to do that for digests.
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