From: James Cummings (jcumming_at_epas.utoronto.ca)
Date: Sun Mar 20 1994 - 13:14:34 EST
It has been written by the hand of John Kim that:
>
>In message Sat, 19 Mar 94 20:06:43 -0500,
> Robert Dewar <dewar_at_schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>
>> but the volume is getting high enough that it is getting annoying (note
>> that we already had two cancellation requests)
>
>One idea we might try is to bundle each day's messages into packets and send
>just one packet. I've seen a couple other mailing lists that do this so
>there must be some standardized software around. And many mailers are
>capable of extracting those packets into normal mail messages (usually via
>the '@' key). The problem with high activity mailing lists is usually
>picking your 'real' mail out of the mailing list traffic.
>--
>John H. Kim | "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like
>jokim_at_jarthur.cs.hmc.edu | 'contributing' this year come April" - Bob Dole
>This mail sent by NUPop | on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word "taxes"
>
>
This had never occurred to me as a possible problem. If you have ELM
available as a mail-reader you can use it to automaticaly filter
message to folders. Anything coming from the list address is
filtered to a file called 'tp750' (in my case). That way I'm able to
keep it separate from personal mail. A side effect is that you don't
have to stay 'up to date' on what is happening onthe mailing list.
There is one (Chaucer-L) which has just been collecting for the last
3 months. I will sit down and skim through the HUNDREDS of messages
this summer. ;-)
If anyone using ELM wants advice on how to do this, I'm willing to
answer questions from my limited knowledge. (Though I'd suggest
checking the man pages on filter and elm).
-James
jcumming_at_epas.utoronto.ca | 1994: Official Year of The Toronto Free-Net.
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