Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-20 Thread Randy Bush
> Procmail, while not all that _friendly_, can be *useful*. for sure. i he not even seen the pathetic perjorative ad homina which my friends here have reported. all i can do is repeat what my father used to tell me, jealousy will get you nowhere. randy

Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-20 Thread Rob McEwen
On 8/19/2014 1:44 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > > or, learn how to filter e-mail into folders like the big kids. :) At first glance, that sounds wise... but there is a problem with that strategy... doing that can EASILY cause a person to miss (or read too late!) critical "zero hour" issues that c

Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-19 Thread Mike A
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:09:50PM +, Sholes, Joshua wrote: > Doesn't everyone do that? > > NANOG was the list that taught me, twelve years ago, that I would suffer > terribly if I didn't pre-sort individual mailing lists into their own > folders. =) Procmail, while not all that _friendly_, c

Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-19 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Doesn't everyone do that? NANOG was the list that taught me, twelve years ago, that I would suffer terribly if I didn't pre-sort individual mailing lists into their own folders. =) -- Josh On 8/19/14, 1:44 PM, "Doug Barton" wrote: > > or, learn how to filter e-mail into folders like the b

Re: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/19/14 7:15 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: RE: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members Go to the search feature of your e-mail, and search for all messages from the NANOG list that has the word "URGENT" in the subject line... then delete them! Then, there will be a LESSER

QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members

2014-08-19 Thread Rob McEwen
RE: QOS improvement suggestion for NANOG list members Go to the search feature of your e-mail, and search for all messages from the NANOG list that has the word "URGENT" in the subject line... then delete them! Then, there will be a LESSER chance of overlooking a truly urgent messages