Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 23:15:59 -0400,
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 August 2006 11:55, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious, do you combine any other lists like that? I've played around
> > with that idea (for example, I used to combine webmaster emails, pgsql-www,
> > and -slaves emails but the slaves traffic was too high so I had to split it
> > back out). As someone subscribed to a good dozen pg lists, I've always been
> > quite amazed how much email some of the folks here manage to process... I
> > suppose I could just chalk it up to a pine vs. gui thing, but I suspect there
> > are some other tricks people have to make emails more manageable (anyone
> > combine all pg mail to one folder?)
>
> I do, but it is a lot of email and if I miss a few days it takes a while to
> catch up again. At some point I will probably do some smarter filtering, but
> I don't want to spend the effort to figure that out right now.
I was at some point doing the "smarter filtering", i.e. each list to its
own folder, but eventually found out that it's better to combine the
whole thing, which is what I do now. I also managed to figure out that
it's better to put stuff that doesn't pass through the list, but has a
Cc: some-list header, in the same folder; that way, duplicates (of which
I do get a few) are easier to handle. (You can choose to remove dupes
by telling Majordomo not to send you mails that have you on Cc:, but
I've found that I lose some people's emails due to my own spam
filtering.) I have on my TODO to have procmail throw away an email that
it already delivered (e.g. by comparing Message-Id's), so if someone has
a solution to that I'd like to know.
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