hey - that's what i was going to say!~)

On Apr 20, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Sam Walters wrote:

Digests from lists that have this much mail seldom get read and are a
PITA to me.  Are you going to read one long email to perhaps find the
things of interest to you?  Probably not.  That is what happened when I
had digest on lists that generated more 10 messages per day.

What I suggest that you do instead is to set up a folder in your inbox
for "Vanagon lists."  (Plural in case you ever join more, or singular if
you wish.)  Then you create a filter that will direct all mail from a
sender name that contains "vanagon" into that folder.  Then the
Vanagon.com mail will be in one place where you can skim over the titles
for what you want to read and it will not be clogging your inbox.  After
doing this for a while and seeing how convenient it is, you will
probably want to set up lots of specific folders and direct much of your
mail to those folders using filters.

Another alternative that many people are using successfully is to set up
a gmail account and send all the mail there.  I'll get around to trying
this sometime soon also, but from what I have read I think I'll probably
continue the way I am going now.   I use Mozilla's Thunderbird for my
email program.

I have about 20 folder and use filters to direct all of the mail from
about 30 lists into one of those folders.

Sam

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on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
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