I too am using gmail for the asterisk lists. And also recommend it... PS: The built in spell checker is very nice too :).
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:34:12 +0900, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > for those who are unhappy with whatever mail reader arrangement they > have reading the mailing list, I'd like to share my experience using > Gmail, which I have been using for about a week or so now. > > I find Gmail to be excellent for the mailing list. It doesn't feel > like a web mail application at all. The threading works perfectly. > Responding to the list keeps the threads intact. It filters out the > HTML bits so I don't have to wade through all that HTML anymore. It > even hides extensive quoting and gives me a little link that reads > "show quoted text" where the quoted text exceeds a certain number of > lines. If you click on that, it will reveal the quoted text and give > you a link underneath that reads "hide quoted text". > > Instead of mailfolders, Gmail has what is called labels. This works > almost like mailfolders but has the advantage that messages can be > attached to more than one label, in other words it is like messages > being present in multiple mailfolders at once. This comes in very > handy when you want to keep most of the mailing list content and find > things later on because you can attach each message multiple labels > which you create yourself and for which you can define filter rules. > > I guess the 1GB mailbox capacity will be sufficient to keep me going > for a while without having to delete any messages. > > The advertising Google is showing on the rightmost coloumn is actually > helpful because it relates to the content of the message or the thread > you are looking at. Most of it looks like stuff you would actually be > interested to visit if the message or thread is what you are > interested in. > > Since I use this account for the Asterisk mailing lists only, I sent > everything that's not showing the mailing list headers nor asterisk in > the subject line or body straight to the trash folder, so I guess spam > won't be an issue when it starts coming in. I have noticed though that > there are legitimate mailing list messages which ended up in the Spam > folder and it's not because of the filters I put in place - must be a > Gmail thing. So far there are 15 false positives out of 250 total. > Will have to send feedback to Google about that. > > Overall, I find Gmail to be an excellent solution for the Asterisk > mailing lists -- and by extension for any other mailing lists, too. > So, if you know somebody who could invite you and you are not happy > using your regular email or some other webmail which breaks the > threading like Yahoo does, I recommend you bother them for an > invitation and try Gmail ;-) > > rgds > benjk > -- > Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, > Tokyo, Japan. > > NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists > may get trashed. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
