OpenEuphoria

Re: Mailing list

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jun 01, 1998
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At 07:55 AM 6/1/98 -0700, Frank Atry wrote:

>Hi Wallace:
>I just joined the LISTSERV, and what you say makes sense.  I'm with you on
this.
>
>Frank
>
>Wallace B. Riley wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody -
>>
>> Somebody recently raised a question about a separate mailing list

Mr. Riley's points are well taken. There are a couple of
things that might help, however:

 One requires the cooperation of the posters to this list:
 that is to include some kind of code in the subject line
 to identify the "category" the message belong in.
 Then anyone who wants can use their e-mail program to
 sort the stuff into different mailboxes (including the
 trash). Other lists do this, with varying degrees of
 success.

 The second solution: Use the web interface to the list.
 It already sorts by subject (or sender, or date...)
 and you only have to read the ones you are interested
 in. Drawback here: the person who has the actual answer
 to your question may never see it.

There's no free lunch, I guess.


Irv