OpenEuphoria

Re: Mailing list

• Posted by Frank Atry <suprsngr at EARTHLINK.NET> Jun 01, 1998
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Irv:
You're right.  It *would* require people's cooperation.  To tell the truth, at
this time I'm too much of a novice for this issue to make a great impact on me
one way or another.  I did, however, get 75 messages in my e-mail box just this
morning!  But, I guess I would rather get 75 than none at all!
You guys go ahead and decide the issue.
Regards to everyone.
Frank

Irv wrote:

> 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