One way to handle OT & spam on a mail list

[Dennis Kibbe]

Mail clients, like Evolution & T'bird are not designed to handle
mail lists where you receive a large volume of mail that clogs your inbox
and is often off topic.

One way to get around this problem is to read the list with a
newsreader like pan or gnus (emacs). You can do this by going to
www.gmane.org and subscribing to gmane.org.user-groups.linux.phoenix.

A news reader will let you easily "score" articles and so those
that you want to read rise to the top and those you don't want to read
will either sink to the bottom or not show up at all. Articles also
"expire" so that your news inbox is self-emptying. Your normal mail
inbox is reserved for, well, mail.

You still need to subscribe to the actual list via the PLUG site if you
want to post, but you can elect to receive the digest rather than
individual posts. and, of course, you can set a mail filter to move the
digest to a different folder or delete it all together.

If you need to contact the administrator of the list that is best done
through
the appropriate admin address rather than posting to the list. Requests for
"vacation hold", unsubscribe and other purely admin matters are handled
through this email address or the mailman page rather than posting to the
list proper.

Dennisk

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