Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Weinem
On Sun, 20 May 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > | some mailreader enable you to 'kill the thread' so you'll never > | see messages in threads that do not interest you. I've heard that > | this works really well in gnus. netscape has these fea

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might want to read the debian list in a news group like >muc.lists.debian.user. I switched from reading debian-user as a mailing >list to a newsgroup . > >Reading from a news group is only a few hours behind the mailing list, but >you can still repl

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread mikepolniak
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to down

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | it is much easier to handle it when you thread the articles. some | mailreader enable you to 'kill the thread' so you'll never see messages | in threads that do not interest you. I've heard that this works really | well in gnus. netsc

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,0

How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Thomas H. George
I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up useful information from other user's questions and answers but I'm swamped! Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to download and delete them much less scan