That was an interesting remark from Bob (the One Bob, <g>) on how he uses to sort those mail heaps. As I'm just beefing up my little offline reader a bit I wondered about approaches people would _like_ to use (in constrast to what the programs prescribe them to do). That "threading" acc. to "Subject:" for instance - for most of the things it's useless for _me_; I'm sorting mails for "themes" which I follow - prior sorting is of little value there, I have to decide while reading them and then need a simple and comfortable way to put it in the right "box".
I used a pre-sorter for I while, in the first han to screen for spam. But no matter how much I tried to "fine-tune" this, it needed to have a manual chack ever so; so in the end it turned out more efficient to do it manually, when the index listing show up first. BTW, this is all with DOS progs; I'm not so much interested to read a long list of Linux progs and switch setting for them, I rather wonder about the "philosophy" of sorting. One difficulty is certainly that everyone has an own definition of what is "easily manageable". And BTW2, as I do all mail with this DOS box I don't get all the mails from different boxes into just one chaotic "queue" but neatly separated anyway (though I could mix them together, but why should I ?) -- Incidentally, this is just a good example: there are a number of interesting point in this "thread" which I'd never find back later if I don't put the respective items into an appropriate place/file/folder. > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:22:23 -0700 > From: Bob George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SURVPC] Productivity History > I've found it simplest to sort mail out > by To: address and file "clean" mailing lists into separate folders. After > that, I do a bit of special handling then pass everything else (any mail > addressed to identities I use in public) to the SpamBouncer script. > SpamBouncer checks for things like HTML content, spam buzzwords and freemail > origination to "score" each message. Those that pass a threshold go into the > Spam folder, though I could simply have them deleted without comment. It's > to the point that I have a few messages in my inbox that are really to me, a > hundred or so mailing list messages sorted out so I can review them at my > leisure, and a bundle of spams that I skim in case there's a false hit, then > blast the rest. It's not perfect, but it makes e-mail manageable for me. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-02-27 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
