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Best practices to follow/read large mailing-lists?

You're probably a lot to be subscribers to various mailing list, some more updated than others.

  • What are your best practices to follow all information going by these lists?
  • What are the best clients you've used to managed that?

I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to get the best signal out of this noisy way of communication :)

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Alex Avatar asked Dec 08 '08 23:12

Alex


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3 Answers

I like gmail because of the way it groups messages by conversation so I can just page down through a thread.

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Cristian Libardo Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 20:10

Cristian Libardo


Use a rule in GMail to slap a label on and archive all of them. Then they are easily sortable, searchable, and threaded.

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TheSoftwareJedi Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 22:10

TheSoftwareJedi


I just use Thunderbird. For some lists, in flat mode, for others (the Lua mailing list), in threaded mode. Following is natural for mailing list, the messages are pushed to your client.

At first, I just received the messages and routed them to the right folder with some rules.

Now, I read them as newsgroups using Gmane, which also allow to catch up history (including mails which were sent before my subscription started and those which were sent during a temporary unsubscription).

Sometime, when a thread has no interest for me, I just right click on the first message and select Mark all messages of this thread as read.

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PhiLho Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 20:10

PhiLho