Greg Stark wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
The difference between discussing a patch and discussing an idea that
might lead to a patch is fairly fine.

And importantly -- who would be able to subscribe to one and not the
other? If you have to subscribe to both to get make any sense of
things then there's no point.

Fwiw I'm having trouble keeping up these days too. And I'm quite
accustomed to very heavy traffic email. I've been throwing all
postgres related lists into one folder and skimmed through it looking
for important threads. However this has now broken down. There are
about 45 new threads every day. I've been travelling for a bit and am
now 1,500 threads behind...
I've only been actively reading the pg lists for a few months now, after several previous attempts that failed mainly because the way I set it up did not work nice, mainly because of the volume. I tried digests, didn't like it (how to reply?), also didn't like that the pg mails that were so many completely swamped the 'main' email I use.

Now I made a new gmail account, subscribed to all lists with some volume and let it all message per message come into the inbox. Together with thunderbird/imap this works quite nicely. With filters it's possible to tag interesting messages (like does the To: contain my email? -> tag it so it becomes green). Now I only need to view unread mails, (by thread or date), read some messages and then ctrl-shift-c - all read.

My $0.02 - I like the whole 'don't sort, search' (or how did they call it?) just let the inbox fill up, google is fast enough. What would be really interesting is to have some extra 'tags/headers' added to the emails (document classification with e.g. self organizing map/kohonen), so my local filters could make labels based on that, instead of perhaps badly spelled keywords in subjects or message body.

regards,
Yeb Havinga

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