Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos jotted down the following: > [digests] it surely beats loading my inbox with hundreds of posts daily in > aggregate and having to sort out the LUG from all of the less fun emails that > I get paid to sort through in my real job. Get a decent email program that does it for you, and sort automatically on incoming message headers to separate email boxes. For example, I use Microsloth Outlook Excess for the Macintosh which lets you define filter rules. Anything that has been sent *to* 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto-ca.us' is automatically placed in the LUG email folder I've created. That way, I don't have to wade through messages I don't want to read (I just skip them if the subject line looks uninteresting), and I don't get them mixed up with my other mail (since they're in a separate folder). Many other free email programs, including Netscrape and Euphoria, for both Macintosh, Windoze, and other platforms, allow you to do the same thing. You can even accomplish the same thing on UNIX machines without using a fancy email client, but grokking the file-formats is only marginally harder than decoding hieroglyphics without the Rosetta stone. Digest had a purpose before the advent of automatic email filtering, but these days are just one gigantic pain in the arse. They should be relegated to museums, along with 7-bit text encoding, and Instamatic film. M. - -- Martin Howard | Harrisburg '79 Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Chernobyl '86 email: howard.390@osu.edu | Windows '98 www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------