[clue] PLEASE UN-SUBSCRIBE ME!

Will will.sterling at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 07:12:48 MDT 2011


GMail makes active mailing list very easy to follow.  I have it tag and
filter the messages into folders, all conversations are automatically
threaded, any quotes I've already read are automatically collapsed, and if I
am not interested in a certain chain I can mute the conversation.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some sympathy.   We live in a culture that is effectively email
> saturated.  Just at my job I tend to get a half dozen or so emails that have
> no bearing on me, usually from people that either spammed a distribution
> list, or are somehow laboring under the delusion that what they have to say
> is so damn fascinating.   Email saturation in general gets to a level where
> I can understand people who object to it based on the principle.
>
> That said, the fact of the matter is email saturation is just part of the
> world we live in.  You might as well object to the sun for rising in the
> east for all the good it'll do.   Tend to think you're just better off
> accepting, and adjusting to it.   Whether it be by delete, procmail, or
> elaborate systems of filtering rules that sort it all into folders on the
> exchange servers of the world that people hardly ever read.  (My technique)
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:40 PM, M Paul Webb <hsechmvt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> <<<Excellent comment, a keeper. I've never understood why so many folks
>> can't be bothered just to delete mails they don't care for. Oh well,
>> my delete key still works.>>>
>>
>> It's a whole lot of deleting, as you guys are very active. It's like a job
>> I have now --- deleting. Most of the topics I do not need to follow, but it
>> has been interesting getting to know this group.
>>
>> At any rate, how I can I stop getting the discussion e-mail but still get
>> the notices of install events and other meetings?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for the information requested.
>>
>> If the pace were not so fast, I would not mind following at least some of
>> the discussion, as it is interesting... but I have too much going on for so
>> much time spent deleting.
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 6/1/11, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [clue] PLEASE UN-SUBSCRIBE ME!
>> To: veganguy at canadaseek.com, "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 5:54 PM
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