Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <lrobins@his.com> wrote:
>I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
>to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a
better bet for dealing with a high volume threaded discussion group.
I'm responding to this in a gated newsgroup set up by my ISP, but I
could just as easily have set it up myself, and I have done so.
>Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the
>subject line, or only replies to your questions, and filter out all
>the others?
These are standard facilites provided by news clients like slrn and
pan.
>Also, is there any way to filter the messages **before** downloading
>them from your ISP to your local machine, which takes time in itself?
If you use fetchmail to collect your mail then I vaguely recall that
something like this is possible. However, I don't use it so I may well
be hallucinating.
Frank
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