Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:06:37 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies writing manuals Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980323194120.21603A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980323072038.00a3c5e0@pop.mpc.com.br>
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Capriotti wrote: > Arrghhhh ! It seems that I'll have to get used to reply to all, though I > think that this double-posting (you're gonna receive my emai twice !) in > unecessary and could be avoyded by a simple change in the rules of a list > which is newborn. (I have to confess that I still use Eudora and Windows, > but I have no choice). A lot of us filter mail using procmail. The mail on -newbies goes into one folder for me, and -questions goes into another, -hackers in yet another, and so on for all the lists I'm on. The way I do this, is that one of the headers in the mail lists the actual sender of this message. All the messages which are on the list are actually sent to me by owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org. So, anything from owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org goes into my f-newbies folder. But, if I'm in the To: or CC: lines, than it comes as being from you, not owner-blah. So it goes into my inbox. The upshot of all this is, if it's to or carbon'ed to me as well as being on the list, I DO get it twice, but once is buried in my list mailbox, while once is in my inbox, so it gets noticed quicker, and it's easier to notice that it's to me. This becomes a REAL issue with over a thousand messages a day, from many many sources; I don't have near enough time to actually READ everything, just the ones with subjects that seem relevant. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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