On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:54:03AM -0700, prad wrote: > i am curious as to what people do to accummulate and organize information > emanating from this list. > > being primarily a forum user i never had this concern - there was nothing to > organize. when you want to look for something just go to the search link and > you find it. > > there is a similar 'search for patterns' on the maillist (that i haven't > figured out yet), which sends posts to you - which looks very powerful. > > presently, i just take emails of interest into a folder and get to view them > in threaded form. i imagine the idea is to 'build' ones own library of posts > using the search feature as opposed to going to a forum to search each time > you want something. > > any useful techniques that experienced people use would be appreciated. There are archives and google can find most anything you want. I use mutt with gmail. I delete most emails from mutt regularly. If there is something that I want that I already deleted local, I can always go to my gmail account online and search for it there.
-- Terry http://tyson.homeunix.org
