RE: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem
Whatever happened to filtering mail to a folder and deleting en masse if you were too busy to catch up? I once got about 500 mails behind on this list and just wiped em all out and considered myself officially caught up. Brian From: On Behalf Of Paul Taylor Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:19 PM To: David Nicol Cc: kclug Subject: Re: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem Take care KCLUG members. I'm unsubscribing because I'm too busy to read even all the on-topic material. Thank you for the years of assisting me when I asked. It's appreciated! Paul
I've gone to using gmail and a "kclug" label. This way I don't even have to bother with downloading all the messges that I don't want. I can clean 'em off the server, and then nab the rest with POP3 if I want to. I usually leave 'em on gmail and use the web interface anyway. It's easier to deal with than keeping two laptops and two desktops with sychronized mail. Of course, one laptop and one desktop both run Ubuntu, while the other two run OS X. I tend to split my time between applefritter.com and ubuntuforums.org, so KCLUG gets my attention when I remeber to check my email. I'm horrible at that anyway. There's usually some entertaining thread going on here. I must say, 3 different technical user cultures gets one in a pickle remembering where you read that one post about the what-have-you software... Jon. On 2/21/06, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
Whatever happened to filtering mail to a folder and deleting en masse if you were too busy to catch up? I once got about 500 mails behind on this list and just wiped em all out and considered myself officially caught up.
Brian
From: On Behalf Of Paul Taylor Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:19 PM To: David Nicol Cc: kclug Subject: Re: proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem
Take care KCLUG members. I'm unsubscribing because I'm too busy to read even all the on-topic material.
Thank you for the years of assisting me when I asked. It's appreciated!
Paul
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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 23:58, Jon Pruente wrote:
I've gone to using gmail and a "kclug" label. This way I don't even have to bother with downloading all the messges that I don't want. I can clean 'em off the server, and then nab the rest with POP3 if I want to.
eh, what happened to procmail? still works here...
I usually leave 'em on gmail and use the web interface anyway. It's easier to deal with than keeping two laptops and two desktops with sychronized mail.
Ever heard of IMAP?
On 2/21/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
eh, what happened to procmail? still works here...
It'll still work whereever it gets installed and configured. No matter what I do to my machines though, I can still surf over to mail.google.com and login to get my mail. No local storage headaches, no maintaining multiple configs for various machines headaches, no "I just blew up my install and lost all my old email" headaches. I'm also not really a poweruser control freak, so I'm not very picky about how my mail gets handled, so long as I can sort it and read it.
Ever heard of IMAP?
Of couse. But: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10339&query=imap&topic=0... So once they get their act together I can get things sorted better.
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 08:16, Jon Pruente wrote:
On 2/21/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
eh, what happened to procmail? still works here...
It'll still work whereever it gets installed and configured.
Which happens in one place: your mail server.
No matter what I do to my machines though, I can still surf over to mail.google.com and login to get my mail.
Unless I do something very stupid to my server, I can always surf over to dashjr.org and login to get my mail.
No local storage headaches,
Huh? What headaches? Unless you're even worse than I am with keeping free disk space...
no maintaining multiple configs for various machines headaches,
Why would you have multiple configs?
no "I just blew up my install and lost all my old email" headaches.
Hey, that's why you're supposed to backup, isn't it?
I'm also not really a poweruser control freak, so I'm not very picky about how my mail gets handled, so long as I can sort it and read it.
Great, less procmail rules.
Ever heard of IMAP?
Of couse. But: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10339&query=imap&topic= 0&type=f
So once they get their act together I can get things sorted better.
emerge courier-imap tada!
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:
Whatever happened to filtering mail to a folder and deleting en masse if you were too busy to catch up? I once got about 500 mails behind on this list and just wiped em all out and considered myself officially caught up.
Yep. I did that too, except it was only about 300. Even recently, I've flagged dozens as read, because I wasn't following or stopped following a thread. I posted a reply to this proposed solution thread, saying I was all for it, if a decent montior could be found, but that it would be a lot of work, and what do we do to the habitual offenders posting on the wrong list? I know there are plenty of lists (because I'm on some) where strict topic rules are enforced. KCLUG has always been too anarchic to go that route. I doubt it would work for KCLUG. Brian JD
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