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'[ADMIN] Tag filtering PICList digest - is it poss'

A friend, who shall remain nameless, who took exception to various aspects

of several of my posts over time recently said (offlist)

>... I have followed some of your postings and been

> surprised that others have not told you to stuff it.

...

> Superficial clap-trap ...

...

> Like GM a year back you have little idea what you are talking about.

...

> You have spoilt my getting the Digest form of the PIClist,. I am now going

> to change to get the individual messages and filter out all the [OT] stuff

> none of which is of interest.

etc

Always nice to be appreciated :-)

And I'm always ready to entertain arguments that demonstrate the falsity of

my positionon GM (or anything else)

However, his point is (probably) valid.

If you don't appreciate the pearls of wisdom of yours truly or others on the

OT tag then it would lead to more harmonious relations if it could be

excluded. Is it possible to set filters or TAGS when receiving the digest so

that eg the [OT] thread is not received?

If this is not officially supported is there a reasonable work around.

Even better would be the ability to filter out selected miscreants -

although this is almost certainly asking too much.

Any of this is easily done by recipients on a per message basis when

receiving individual messages.

        RM

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Gee whiz!

I have been wondering the same thing only 180 degrees out of phase....

I would like to be able to COLLECT those links into one list and post them

on my website under the title of "Russell's Bedside Reading"!

John Ferrell

http://DixieNC.US

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Russell McMahon wrote:

> 

> Always nice to be appreciated :-)

> And I'm always ready to entertain arguments that demonstrate the falsity of

> my positionon GM (or anything else)

> 

> However, his point is (probably) valid.

> If you don't appreciate the pearls of wisdom of yours truly or others on the

> OT tag then it would lead to more harmonious relations if it could be

> excluded. Is it possible to set filters or TAGS when receiving the digest so

> that eg the [OT] thread is not received?

> If this is not officially supported is there a reasonable work around.

> Even better would be the ability to filter out selected miscreants -

> although this is almost certainly asking too much.

> Any of this is easily done by recipients on a per message basis when

> receiving individual messages.

> 

> 

> 

>         RM

I don't want to start a flame-war, but IMO the digest version should be 

expected to include everything. A much more efficient way of doing 

things is filtering incoming messages: send all messages with "To: 

spam_OUTpiclistTakeThisOuTmit.edu" into your "piclist" folder. Any message with "[OT]" in 

the subject should go to the trash then if that person doesn't want to 

read it. Digest mode is horrible for following conversations and a waste 

of time. IMO...YMMV and other TOFLA [three or four letter acronyms]

AFAIK [oops 5 chars]

The only mail reader I know of that doesn't support filtering and 

different folders is WebTV. I think even AOL does [though AOL does 

seriously mess up MIME types and confuse Mailman].

That's how I do things. I get about 300 emails a day, it would be 

unbearable if I did not filter.

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Martin Klingensmith

http://infoarchive.net/

http://nnytech.net/

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