Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:06 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > I imagine that you can configure mailfilter to delete all messages > from debian-user except for the ones that match your subject (whatever > you make your header to be). Just be sure to update the filter > if/when you change your subje

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:05:31AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: ... | This last weekend it took over a minute to download even one email | and I had to give up with over 400 waiting in the queue. I cannot | read all of these messages en-masse and so filter out and delete | anyhing other than those w

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

2001-12-08 Thread Ian Balchin
Wendell & Andrew, I take the point that you are making, but I had retained the original header for a specific reason. It is obvious that many posts to the list are from experienced linux users querying relatively obstruse points who are not, as I am, a first-time user with linux experience mea

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:21:44AM -0800, Wendell Cochran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:13:33 +0200 > >From: "Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Hello, all, > >I am, after all, still alive. > > > Please use a Subject line appropriate to the immediate problem. > > `

Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]

2001-12-06 Thread Wendell Cochran
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:13:33 +0200 >From: "Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, all, >I am, after all, still alive. Please use a Subject line appropriate to the immediate problem. `Newbie comments & queries' could apply to nearly every post to this list; it's nearly as ineffectual as 'Plea