Re: [Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: > With GMail, it is better to reduce noise by searching unvanted people and > keywords and mark them automatically as read. > I tried that, but Gmail organizes things in "conversations" that includes read messages in the stream so you still e

Re: [Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Actually 'includes the words' searches also the 'subject' and 'from' fields in GMail (this is google's product after all). Therefore there is only one filter (the latter) required if email addresses are included in key words. –Jouni On 28 November 2011 01:18, Jouni Valkonen wrote: > With GMai

[Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread Jouni Valkonen
With GMail, it is better to reduce noise by searching unvanted people and keywords and mark them automatically as read. Then it is simple to to keep inbox clean, but still the filtering is not final solution, but they can be always unfiltered, if needed. Brief instruction to filter noise: 1) From

Re: [Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Oh, I almost forgot: For gmail, the action to take upon filter match is "delete". Others won't get rid of the noise. On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:32 PM, James Bowery wrote: > Although the "kill file" approach doesn't work due to responses, one can > use email filters such as gmail's to filter no

[Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Although the "kill file" approach doesn't work due to responses, one can use email filters such as gmail's to filter not only on the "from" field but on words that occur in the body of the message. The increase in signal to noise ratio is a pleasure.