From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 11:17:48 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 36E8C37B620 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260B644267 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1SIfhi30110; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:41:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030228133646.C26310-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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. I use pine to read all of my mail. I have an account that handles about 6 mailing lists, each of which filtered into it's own folder. Usually while at work, I let the messages build up, then when I get a minute, I go through all of the folders and sort by thread. I then delete the threads I don't want, and read the rest of the messages one by one. I find with pine I can manoever and manipulate through several mail accounts by using the shortcut keys 5 times faster than any gui based email client. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message