> My mailbox cannot handle the number of posts this list generates, > especially not when I'm away for the weekend or even week. What should I > do to participate in this mailing list without clogging my mailbox?
Well, there are several sorts of solutions to this kind of problem. A simple one is the "several accounts" fix which someone already described to you. Another one, which depending on your knowledge and/or confidence with Unix you might prefer, is mail filtering. That is running a program on your Unix account to analyze mail as it arrives, and send it automatically to an appropriate folder file. I for example, recently subscribed to this list. On my shell account at college, I set up a program called procmail to automatically detect which mail goes into what folder. I set up a couple of cron jobs to delete after midnight old messages so they don't clutter up my account. However, if you happen to be new to Unix, procmail might be abit intimidating. I include below for your benefit my .procmailrc file so you can have an idea of how it works. Basically, procmail scans message headers using regular expressions, and if a message matches a condition, executes and action on it; for example, filing it to a mail folder file. (In my case, below, I pipe the message into the rcvstore command, part of the MH mailer, to put it into the correct MH folder.) I hope this gives you an idea of more options at your disposal. ----- BEGIN HERE ----- MAILDIR=~/Mail PATH=/usr/lib/mh:~/bin # Oracularities :0 * ^FROM_oracle-request | rcvstore +oracle # debian-news mailing list :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | rcvstore +debian-news # debian-user :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | rcvstore +debian-user # NETFUTURE list :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | rcvstore +netfuture # LING-TEX mailing list :0 * ^TO_ling-tex | rcvstore +ling-tex # Anything else goes to the inbox :0 | rcvstore +inbox
