On Thu, 06-Dec-2007 at 04:29PM -0800, Loren Engrav wrote: |> As for news readers |> I found R and R.mac and R.Bio on the sites you recommend, thank you very |> much, they would avoid the individual emails, but then I would have to go |> look at them, which might be Ok |> |> Deluge? Well, there are from R and Bio and R-Mac every morning 30 or 35, and |> 10-15 more during the daytime, and ~50 deletes is painful |> |> But then every morning one or two are useful so...
I find it absolutely essential to have a client that can display mail in threads. Deleting mail a thread at a time is an order of magnitude more efficient. Nabble does a fairly good job of showing threads, but I would prefer to download every message and delete the threads I'm ignoring. Even on a good connexion, the delays downloading individual messages add up. And gmail is slower still. Another advantage of your own client is that you can use a monospaced font which is far easier for reading code which is bound to happen on a list like this. Most people I know have the misfortune of not having access to a mail client that displays threads[1], but for anyone who has control over such things, in the Windows world, I know Thunderbird is fairly good, but if you're fortunate enough to be allowed to use Linux, there is Mutt or you might like Emacs as a mail client which both do threads very well without the need to use a mouse -- which I consider a huge bonus. [....] |> |> Still would be fun to understand why some R are junk and some are not As several have said, it's to do with your mail client and/or how mail and spam filters are set up on your domain. Nothing to do with this list. 1. Read "misfortune of having to use Outlook or even Outlook Express" best -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Middle minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Anon ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.