Re: [OT] mailing list management

Paulo Marques
2005-06-01T10:49:47Z

Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
> [...]
> Well I might use "Reply to all" but then for example you would receive
> two copies of this email. One in your private inbox and the other in the
> list's box. Is this correct?

That is standard procedure.

The thing is, this list has a lot of traffic (as you might have noticed
:), and sometimes people don't have time to go through all the emails,
and just take special attention at mails directed at them personally.

I use thunderbird like you and I have a filter to mark as "Personal"
emails that have my address in the "To or CC" fields. This way, if I
stop reading emails for a few days, when I get back, the first thing I
do is just filter "Personal" emails to see if there are any messages
directed at me personally. Then I can just browse the rest of the
messages without paying too much attention.

Another side effect is that this method speeds up conversations, where
the people already involved in a thread receive emails directly without
having to wait for the list server to dispatch its queue.

Anyway, see:

http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-20

for more information. (and the whole document while you're at it :)

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