On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001, mulix wrote about "Re: Netvision NNTP Server":
> > we have been skirting around the main issue, imho. mailing lists are just
> > more comfortable, since they land directly in your inbox.
>
> Actually, having mailing list mail land directly in my inbox has long ago
> become an unworkable solution. I get roughly 100-200 messages a day from
> 50 mailing lists, and it is impossible and extremely confusing to go through
> them in one huge inbox. If anything, this is a bad thing about mailing lists,
> not a good thing.
I get rougly the same amount of email per day (the biggest culprits are
linux-kernel and the gcc mailing list). i find that sort by subject and a
heavy handed use of the 'd' key take care of the probplem quite well.
i usually scan my email in two passes, one to remove all not interesting
threads, and one to actually read the rest.
> What I (and I guess most heavy mailing-list users) actually do is to filter
> each mailing list into a seperate folder, and then read these seperate
> folders. I have my mutt and zsh setup so that I know when new mail arrives
> at any such folder, and easily read it. But I really don't see how that is
> better than running "trn" (or whatever) and reading the various newsgroups.
response time. mail i read locally. for news i have to use my isp's news
server, which gives horrible response times, and so have all other isps'
news servers i've used in the past. i might mention that i stopped reading
mail by shell on my isp's machine because of the exact same response time
problem (and a security issue, since they only offer telnet access and not
ssh). my solution was to install sshd on my home machine, and with a 24/7
adsl connection, i can read mail remotely on own my machine- response
time is reasonable, and its secure.
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