On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Kiel Gillard wrote:
Hi all, I subscribe to the cocoa-dev list RSS feed instead of receiving individual or digest emails. I find this approach is a fast and convenient method to scan the topics, examine individual messages and receive regular updates to the cocoa-dev's content without flooding my inbox. In contrast, if I choose to use the digest mode, I have to scroll or search digests for particular topics and delete digest messages once I'm done with them, which is obviously more tedious. Using an RSS feed reader, it can automatically check for new content and with a keystroke investigate or dismiss content. Given that I read the list more than I contribute to it, I prefer using the RSS feed. However the RSS feed approach carries two problems. Firstly, I cannot reply to individuals off-list because their email addresses are censored. Finally, my contributions become tedious to compose as I have to copy and paste relevant information such as previous messages and subject headers into the new reply. Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions? Or should I settle for the cumbersome digest mode? Thanks, Kiel Gillard
Hi! What I do is subscribe to the list for every message, then filter using a Mail rule into, essentially, a special Mailing Lists folder -- then I view that folder as organized by thread. I further refine this with smart mailboxes to filter by what's today, and also one to filter by anything older than three days. Every day I simply go to that last one and delete its contents -- I don't have room in my account to be archiving a ton of messages, but I like to keep the past couple of days'.
Also, I'm probably overthinking this, but your message isn't (in my opinion) exactly off-topic -- more of a meta-topic. So I wonder whether a subject heading of "[META] How do people use and contribute to this list?" would have been cool.
Yeah, I'm overthinking it.
Cheers,
Andrew
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