Re: moderninzing/upgrading mail list format

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 6 July 2010 16:50, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 07/05/10 2:43 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote:
>>>
>>> I belong to MANY email listservers, probably like all of us.
>>>
>>> All of them, I am on digest.
>>>
>>
>> I quit using digests many years ago when threaded email clients with
>> filtering support came along.  instead, I have a postgres folder in my mail
>> client (currently Mozilla Thunderbird), and I filter any message with
>> [GENERAL] in the subject to this folder.   I can breeze through the new
>> messages in the folder by hitting 'N' repeatedly.
>>
>
> I use the GMail web client which reads very well, especially since I
> put a filter on emails to and from *(at)postgresql(dot)org to auto-archive
> them and label them "PostgreSQL".  That means none of them appear in
> my inbox, but I can just click on the PostgreSQL label to list them.
>
> A problem only comes when there have been over 100 emails in a thread,
> which then puts further emails into another grouping, usually
> beginning with "Re: "  Not generally a big issue though.
>
> I had a look at the Google Groups, but it's so littered with spam that
> I found it far less accessible.

Big +1 on this. I've been tracking -hackers, -general, and
-performance on gmail since 2004. It works really, really well for
mailing lists. The privacy issue is moot (if that bugs you) for
public lists and gmail is extremely powerful.

merlin