[thelist] OT: How do you handle thelist?

[H. G. Quinn]

I have periods where I check every message, and periods were I read nothing, but I always
want to be able to go back if I read a current post to an old thread that I missed out
on.  I filter everything into an evolt folder, then 2 or 3 times a month, I create
subfolders: evolt 2001 04 1, evolt 2001 04 2, etc., and break out the posts into the
subfolders, by date.  Even though I follow evolt by thread, and the monthly subdivisions
break threads, I like the date-grouped subfolders, because they let me grasp the
continuity of what people were talking about at any particular time.  When if I have a
slow day and feel like reading evolt posts offline for 4 hours, they're right there.  My
personal rule is never to let a folder or subfolder go over 1000 messages, as once in a
while e-mail db index pointers get messed up over that limit.  I keep my subfolders
collapsed under their parent folder, so they're out of the way, but never lost.

david braun wrote:

> Greetings, all
>
> Though, or because, I really appreciate thelist and its members,
> wizards, friendly and not-so-friendly-but-funny contributions, I just
> wanted to ask how other handle thelist's masses of messages? I am
> sitting in front of 5000+ unread messages, wich I don't really want to
> ditch, since I know there are verry valuable comments, tips, ...
>
> tia
>
> david
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Cheers,

Heather Quinn
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