Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

[Marshall Savage <msavage@uswest.net>]

Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into 
the correct separate email box.  However it does nothing 
for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would 
considerably help.  Both web based discussion managers & 
news reader programs handle treading well.  For a group of 
this volume you would need a good discussion server & at 
least one public server that I know of just isn't up to the 
job.  It's to busy for good service.  I wonder why this 
listserver group hasn't long ago gone to a news/news server 
format for the much better accessibility of the threaded 
news readers.  It doesn't have to be part of the public 
news system with it's well known loss of messages, 
advertisements, & harvesting of email addresses for future 
spam.  If Debian can set up & run the fancy listserver as 
they have they could just as well instead run a private or 
semi-private news server that only has Debian 
news/discussion on it.  There are a reasonable number of 
such already on the net.  The existing searchable email 
archive could be just as good or better as a news 
archive.


At 3/10/99 08:56 AM , you wrote:
From: Nuno Donato <nunodonato@xoommail.com>
> Thank you for reading my message.
> I am a member of the Debian Linux Mailing List(just like
> you) and I know how boring is to receive every day 
> hundreds
> of e-mails, and don't have time to read it all.
> So now I have found a much easier way.
> Click on the link on the bottom of my email to go directly 
>
> to my page: "Unofficial Debian Linux Message Board"
>
> Yes that's it! A message board it's much easier to use and 
>
> you don't have hundred of e-mails in you Inbox every day. 
> So
> I will wait you all there. See ya!
>
> http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb392374
At 3/10/99 01:58 PM , you wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:34:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher J. 
> Morrone wrote:
>
> > Agreed.  I think that he just needs an introduction into 
> > the wonderful
> > world of maill filtering.  procmail is our friend.
>
>    procmail, exim filters, or do what I do, use a Windows 
> client that has
> filtering built in.  :)