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It has been written by the hand of John Kim that: > >In message Sat, 19 Mar 94 20:06:43 -0500, > Robert Dewar <dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> writes: > >> but the volume is getting high enough that it is getting annoying (note >> that we already had two cancellation requests) > >One idea we might try is to bundle each day's messages into packets and send >just one packet. I've seen a couple other mailing lists that do this so >there must be some standardized software around. And many mailers are >capable of extracting those packets into normal mail messages (usually via >the '@' key). The problem with high activity mailing lists is usually >picking your 'real' mail out of the mailing list traffic. >-- >John H. Kim | "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like >jokim@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu | 'contributing' this year come April" - Bob Dole >This mail sent by NUPop | on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word "taxes" > > This had never occurred to me as a possible problem. If you have ELM available as a mail-reader you can use it to automaticaly filter message to folders. Anything coming from the list address is filtered to a file called 'tp750' (in my case). That way I'm able to keep it separate from personal mail. A side effect is that you don't have to stay 'up to date' on what is happening onthe mailing list. There is one (Chaucer-L) which has just been collecting for the last 3 months. I will sit down and skim through the HUNDREDS of messages this summer. ;-) If anyone using ELM wants advice on how to do this, I'm willing to answer questions from my limited knowledge. (Though I'd suggest checking the man pages on filter and elm). -James jcumming@epas.utoronto.ca | 1994: Official Year of The Toronto Free-Net.