Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul N. Cobb" <pcobb@cybernet.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: Darren Davis <DARREND@novell.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Message-ID: <XFMail.960610143528.pcobb@cybernet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960610100142.18220B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On 10-Jun-96 Jake Hamby wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Darren Davis wrote:
>>
>> 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 would also like to know what tools (under Unix) are available to break
>up incoming mail by mailing list. Right now I'm using pine (no jokes,
>please, it's a good mail program!) and it puts a + sign by personal
>messages, but is there any way to split individual mailing lists into
>different folders? Can MH do this (I tried it *briefly* but didn't look
>at all of the MANY options). Please reply personally, I don't want to
>clog up hackers unnecessarily.
>
>---Jake
Use xfmail, it has rules to separate mail into different folders
It's great. All point and click, real easy to use.
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