On 05/10/2008 12:27, Alan Lord wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 05/10/2008 10:40, Alan Lord wrote:
Rob Clement wrote:
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Anyway - another great example of why these lists are *so* much
better accessed using gmane.
Please excuse my ignorance but how is this (repeated message problem)
alleviated by the use of gmane?
Well, mainly, it means I don't get my email inboxes filling up with
tons of spam. But I would say that perhaps my wording should have
concluded with the phrase "for me" ;-)
I tend to "act on" email in a far more timely manner than I do with
newsgroups. It's way I work; newsgroups are to be read and comments
made during those quiet/leisure periods.
Although I have 10 or so different email addresses, almost all of the
mail that arrives in them is - in some way - important and relevant to
work/family whatever. Newsgroups are treated very differently.
I usually have *no* unread messages in my email boxes, the many
newsgroups I subscribe to sit at the bottom of the folder list and get
read/dealt with as and when I can (I use Thunderbird BTW).
For me, it's a great way to differentiate between traditional email
activities and mailing lists.
HTH
Al
Yes, thanks. I just use an e-mail address for this list that I don't use
for anything else. The mail to that address has its own Thunderbird
Inbox, folders etc. It is not part of "Local Folders". That way there
is no mixing between traffic on this list and other "proper" traffic.
The benefit is that I can (have) set up a filter to highlight posts from
unsubscribed users. Can't do that in Thunderbird's news reader :-(
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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