Date: 2 Jul 1999 09:27:55 -0000 From: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk To: jkonecn@green-mfg.com, reese@adeptscience.com Cc: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A request to the list owner. Message-ID: <19990702092755.24629.qmail@csad.coventry.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <377C36D9.644D8A45@green-mfg.com>
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> Exactly. Two other lists I belong to do the same thing. Basically, it comes down to this: FreeBSD tends to be preferred/run by old time UNIX heads. If they lived in the UK they'd listen to Radio 4. They *HATE* `dumbing down', but not user friendliness. To let you sort your mail you can: 1) subscribe a differnet mail address - my mail is delivered to justin-freebsd 2) sort on the envelope from 3) sort on the "Sender:" header 4) subscribe to the digests To alter the subject line as suggested would change: 281 jkonecn@green-mfg.co Fri Jul 02 03:53 132/5525 "Re: A request to the " to 281 jkonecn@green-mfg.co Fri Jul 02 03:53 132/5525 "Re: FreeBSD> A reques" (this is BSD Mail, I'll get around to compiling Af soon. Honest. And I'll install spell soon.) Yes, this lets you visually sort which messages are to the list, but you can no longer visually sort which ones are worth reading. All of this, of course, is IMHO. Justin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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