From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 11 19:31:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA17330 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uuserve.on.ca (uuserve.on.ca [192.139.145.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA17324 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rjr@localhost) by sparks.empath.on.ca (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA16691; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:30:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:30:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert J. Rutter" Message-Id: <199606120230.WAA16691@sparks.empath.on.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers Reply-To: rjr@sparks.empath.on.ca Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 I use procmail and Cnews to post digests and mailing lists to local newsgroups. These are both from the 2.1R CDROM. I then read them with trn (3.6). Articles with related subject lines are automagically threaded by trn, so unwanted threads can be spotted easily and killed (or put in a kill file). Cnews expires messages depending on how long I want to keep a particular group available for reference. Hope this helps. This method is a little slow and is tedious to set up but it sure beats wading through the 1000+ messages per week I would otherwise have in my mailbox. Wrt to going to newsgroups; you will see the useful content/noise ratio drop by an order of magnitude (if other mailing lists that have done the same are any indication). Please don't even consider it.