On 10.07.13 14:59, Bruce Layne wrote: > Forums require users to visit them and participate. An email list > arrives in my inbox. That's both an advantage and a disadvantage. It > keeps the topics in front of me on a daily basis and keeps me involved > but it does clutter my inbox.
The chaos of a single incoming mailbox sounds unbearably stressful. Some mail clients can sort incoming mail into various mailboxes, but in line with the ancient unix way of doing things, i.e. one tool for one job, I have fetchmail running in daemon mode to handle the SMTP work of bringing the mail from my ISP, and procmail to perform screening and sorting according to a bunch of rules which are tweakable at will, using one's favourite text editor. So all that mutt has to do is provide an elegant GUI-free interface for reading mail, and facilitating manual sorting into the 1106 mailboxes for messages worth archiving, 392 of them on LinuxCNC. It presents the incoming mailboxes in my preferred order, so it is lower priority stuff which ends up waiting. Whatever you prefer, it is well worthwhile bringing some order to your world. I'm just back from a week on the farm, and know immediately that 647 mails await my attention, all neatly sorted into prioritised mailboxes, according to their origin, 101 of them on LinuxCNC. Over the next few days I'll go through the backlog. If we briefly ignore the fact that I do not patronise any fora, regardless of topic, I seriously doubt that I would ever bother actively searching out missed traffic on some damn thing that needs to be logged in to. (And a dozen of them, one for each list? It is hard to imagine anyone going to that much bother.) Erik -- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
