[Campaigns-l] Re: Campaigns-l Digest, Vol 1, Issue 21

[Artie]

Rick Schwartz wrote:

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> I find this idea of having discusssions in e-mail very cumbersome - 
> and I get way too many of them per day.  It is clogging my inbox.

One good way to avoid a clogged inbox is to use a mail client with 
message filtering tools. I use the message filter tools in the Mozilla 
Thunderbird mail client to place all email from campaigns-l at wikia.com 
into a folder named "wikia." I do the same with other Yahoo groups I 
read. The mail never goes into my inbox at all. These filters can also 
send spam straigt to the trash and delete it from the POP servers. You 
can sort email into folders using subject, author, date or words 
contained in the message text.

On top of all this, Thunderbird is a truly threaded environment. You can 
see at glance who's responding to whom and the chronology as well. For 
any given level of message exchange, this is the least clunky method I'm 
aware of.

I have read that the forums in Mediawiki are threaded, but I haven't 
seen this kind of functionality.

Artie