From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 8:33:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E9237B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:33:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 802CA43FAF for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:33:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046881989.529d46@mired.org) Received: (qmail 68463 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 16:33:09 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 16:33:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15967.36677.45468.465275@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:33:09 -0600 To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov typed: > On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. > Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day > long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of > time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I > had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am > a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained > to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask > this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which > the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto > his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any > person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, > and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time > to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a > response. Thank you. A lot of people have mentioned the digestified version of -questions. That, plus a UMA that can dedigestify and sort messages (VM will do that) is one possible solution to the problem. Another is to read the messages as a newsgroup. Most newsreaders thread these days, so you should get sorted messages out of that. It doesn't necessarily work well for answering questions because of the missing Cc: headers. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message