Finally, a post with a reasonable solution! - Use an email client on
your computer! Then it won't matter and you do not have to sign onto
several web based accounts.
I currently have 11 accounts that are handled by my email client
(Thunderbird). All incoming mail is sorted via filters into separate
folders under my inbox, so I have only a small amount of inbox
investigation and arrangement to do. As a result I have my own personal
"digest" on my computer.
I shudder to think how long it would take me to sign into each email
group using webmail.
Most of my accounts are handled as POP3 mail, and yes, I do look at my
email on more than one computer. I just tell Thunderbird to leave a
copy of all emails on the server for 7 days (unless I delete them), and
I can see all my email on any computer as long as I download the email
on each one at least once a week.
To me all my accounts look the same whether QTH.net, or groups.io or
gmail or other. I use plain text with all of them - no problems.
I do regularly delete emails that are more than 6 months old - but I
have to do that manually.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 9/30/2019 2:48 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
Reflectors are like CW. They've been around almost as long as the
Internet. The other term is "list server."
The sender sends an E-Mail, and it goes out to the list. It's up to the
individual mail system, and client, to deal with as they wish.
Personally, as someone who actually ran mail systems for a few decades,
I find it far easier to use a mail client running on my machine than it
is do deal with a mail client running on a machine hundreds of
milliseconds away, and wait for my share of that processor to send back
an updated display.
... but then again, I've been dealing with list servers since the 90's,
and pretty much hate the web-based analogs.
But, as is often said on the Internet, YMMV.
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