a little OT: how to handle this email list?

[Matthew Wilson]

Hi-

I subscribe to the python mailing list with an IMAP mailbox. I use
squirrelmail to check my mail. This is a great list, but it is definitely
high volume. My python folder fills up with several hundred emails every
day. How do the rest of you handle all the traffic on this list? Do you
delete everything at the end of every day?

All insights are welcomed.

 

[Peter Hansen]

I subscribe to the python mailing list with an IMAP mailbox. I use
squirrelmail to check my mail. This is a great list, but it is definitely
high volume. My python folder fills up with several hundred emails every
day. How do the rest of you handle all the traffic on this list? Do you
delete everything at the end of every day?

As Skip pointed out, use a "thread kill" feature. If you don't have
that with this newsgroup/mailing list, you're probably screwed!

I tend to read with my finger on the "k" key more than on the "n"
(for "next") key. Relatively few threads survive the first posting.
Some few that do, I tend to hit "n" rapidly to skip past updates except
those made by folks who've shown they have a clue. If no interesting
posts are made after a while, even the formerly interesting threads will
get encounter the "k" key of death...

-Peter

 

[Christoph Becker-Freyseng]

Hi Matthew Wilson,

I have a pop3-mailbox and finally store the whole Python-List locally on
my Computer hoping that the Mozilla-Maiil can handle this amount of
emails. Maybe there's a feature in your IMAP-Client to "store local and
del from server".

Just killing threads (as mentioned in other answers) seems OK to me,
because you can stil get those threads on gmane.org


Christoph Becker-Freyseng

 

[JanC]

I subscribe to the python mailing list with an IMAP mailbox. I use
squirrelmail to check my mail. This is a great list, but it is
definitely high volume. My python folder fills up with several
hundred emails every day. How do the rest of you handle all the
traffic on this list? Do you delete everything at the end of every
day?

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