Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:33:09 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1046881989.529d46@mired.org> To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? Message-ID: <15967.36677.45468.465275@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov> References: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov>
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In <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov>, Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov typed: > On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. > Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day > long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of > time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I > had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am > a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained > to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask > this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which > the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto > his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any > person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, > and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time > to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a > response. Thank you. A lot of people have mentioned the digestified version of -questions. That, plus a UMA that can dedigestify and sort messages (VM will do that) is one possible solution to the problem. Another is to read the messages as a newsgroup. Most newsreaders thread these days, so you should get sorted messages out of that. It doesn't necessarily work well for answering questions because of the missing Cc: headers. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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