From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 17:28:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA28991 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apocalypse.superlink.net (root@apocalypse.superlink.net [205.246.27.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA28976; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from marxx@localhost) by apocalypse.superlink.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA03602; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:38:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:38:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles C. Figueiredo" To: Darren Davis cc: hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Darren Davis wrote: > There is too much noise, I think I need a straight jacket! > > I came back to my email from the weekend, and I had over 400 hundred emails. > All this is just two days! Most are from the FreeBSD mailing lists. > I can't keep up with this! There needs to be a better way. I must admit > some of my problems with managing my email are due to the tools I am unfortunately > forced to use. (Hey Terry, remember GroupWise under Unix?) For those > of you who have not experienced GroupWise, take my recommendation DON'T! > > What are the thoughts on breaking this stuff out of mail lists and into > news groups? (At least there I can use kill files to eliminate the noise.) > Or, must I suffer this fate? Any suggestions on how to manage this much > email? Jordan, how do you deal with all this traffic? > > Thanks for letting me make some noise about the noise. > > Darren > > > > How about giving procmail a shot? _M "I don't want to grow up, I'm a BSD kid. There's so many toys in /usr/bin that I can play with!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles C. Figueiredo Marxx marxx@superlink.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------