Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FC> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LHR> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular LHR> subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of LHR> messages (>250/day)? FC> FC> A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a FC> better bet for dealing with a high volume threaded discussion group.
(Not for newbies, but...) I read all of my mail in Gnus, the singing, dancing mail- and newsreader for Emacs. Gnus' view of the world is that everything (including mail groups, mbox files, IMAP folders, ...) is a newsgroup, and reacts accordingly. Gnus has a couple of nice features. One is automatic expiry: for selected groups (including all of the high-traffic Debian lists I'm on), mail sits around for about a week, then automatically gets deleted. Another is adaptive scoring: each article gets a score based on its author and subject line. If I read articles with certain words in the subject or from a particular author, the score goes up; if I kill articles off, the score goes down. This way, for the most part, stuff I'm interested in filters to the top of the list. The big downside of Gnus, of course, is that it's written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, and you pretty much need to know elisp moderately well to be able to effectively configure it. It is a very powerful program, though; current versions support reading and sending MIME out-of-the-box, and good support for encrypted messages is coming up in the next version. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
