Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > Outlook has had rule-based sorting into other mailboxes for a > while, so I would have thought it was possible to use that.
It does have that. And I tried that for a while, but found it to be "out-of-sight, out-of-mind." It's worse than just going to the group page and searching when I need something. How I work with other lists (that use subject headers) is I press Ctrl-F to bring up a search box and type "[whatever" (let's assume "[du]" for this list). That gives me a list of only those emails and when I open them I can go to the previous or next email by clicking a button. It is really the only way I'd found to effectively manage participation in a list (and I've tried lots of things.) > I also thought it had a way to search for text that appeared > anywhere in the headers (so you can search for > django-users@googlegroups.com wherever it appears). It does, but it takes many keystrokes and numerous clicks making it very tiring to do over and over every day, hence rather than have to do that I just give up on a list and unsubscribe, especially a high volume one. > > Obviously there's a group of people that would like to see this. Is > > there any chance for a compromise? I understand about "burning" 14 > > characters, but what about four, i.e. [du]? > > Cryptic prefixes don't seem very usable for the masses. I > realise it sounds harsh, but degrading the situation for a > lot of users just because of flaws in one particular email > client isn't particularly fair. I don't be to be contrary or confrontational, but in what context is it unusable? I would think it would be confusing for a person the first time they subscribed after which they'd learn what it means and go about their business. Heck, what about [django] then? That's usable. And I wouldn't be asking for something "just for me" if it wasn't standard practice on most lists. > If Outlook cannot do what you want and the current situation > is intolerable, you can switch your configuration (at the > Google groups page for this group) to daily digest mode (one > email per day). Or you can read and reply to the group > through the web interface. <Sigh> Digest isn't usable either and neither is reading or replying to the web interface. It's sad that you guys are so against what is standard practice on almost every other list. I'll probably just have to unsubscribe and learn TurboGears instead. BTW, as I'm new to this list, should I take this attitude as a foreshadowing? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
