On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:44:15 -0400 (EDT) karhunhammas <Beartooth> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> It is, however, a great aid for those high-bandwidth lists that you > very seldom post to and want badly to read a small fraction of. > And of course the other old regulars, knowing you're on index option, > send you direct carbons of replies to your posts, and replying to > those immediately becomes much easier. (Autocat is a list I was > regular on for years before i retired.) Urk. I'm on similar high volume lists and instead use keyword and pattern matching to extract and externally present those bits I think I might be interested in (those messages get copied to a second <listname>-interesting folder). That way there's no fetch delay time for the specific messages I tag and I can easily read the whole list or backtrack a thread should I wish to. Simpler, faster, more featured. Good stuff. Quite simply the fetchable index approach seems an unmitigated pain with no gain or benefit _UNLESS_ your mail system is so poorly featured that you effectively have no (or extremely poor) filtering tools (which pretty well defines all mass market MUAs). <Notes to self: data point for Chuq's survey> -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
