From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Chargin Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:30:26 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] Newbies list? In-Reply-To: References: <53EA0405.4030309@compulab.co.il> <53EA3BEC0200004600053CA6@gwia2.rz.hs-offenburg.de> Message-ID: <53EB92A2.9080803@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 08/12/2014 11:24 PM, Hannes Petermaier wrote: > Hi Frank, > >> >> Well I've got to say, as a User I'd surely like to learn some new tricks > from >> time to time. I believe this new mailing list would be the right place > for it. >> What is happening now: my Mailbox gets full of messages, that I barely > read >> (because they are just too many), most of those I have read then weren't > >> useful for me at all - and I guess I unintentionally deleted many > interesting >> mails because of this. Surely I'm not the only one doing it this way. > > in this case you've the possibility to switch into "digest mode" on the > mailing-list web-page. > Then you get only a few emails per day and you can have a look to the > headlines and read the rest if there is something interesting. Another option might be to set up an active email filter that moves the U-Boot mailing list messages from your inbox to a different folder. I have my Thunderbird installation set up this way. I don't get interrupted for U-Boot emails and I can easily scan the email subject lines to see what I might want to read, when I have time. I've been subscribed to the list for a few years, but I consider myself a newbie in that U-Boot is not my main job. I found that after a while I had a good idea of what I should look at and what I ignore. The context of what the active developers were doing has been valuable to me. I also have asked a few pretty basic questions on the list and have found the responses to be generally helpful and (mostly) patient. Jim -- Jim Chargin AJA Video Systems jimc at aja.com (530) 271-3334 http://www.aja.com