Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to download and delete them much > less scan them for interesting items. I unsuvscribed for a while > because of this and am thinking of doing so again. What I'd like is a > way of switching on and off depending on my need to ask a question and > the time I have available to download and scan messages.
You might want to read the debian list in a news group like muc.lists.debian.user. I switched from reading debian-user as a mailing list to a newsgroup . Reading from a news group is only a few hours behind the mailing list, but you can still reply directly to the list and a good newsreader has all the threading and filters you need plus you wont see messages you've already marked as read. Works for me.
