Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 02:27:35 -0400
Reply-To: Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for List
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write a better filter set.
don't expect 100% accuracy - how stressful can it be if you have 99%
accuracy
I filter four lists into a vanagon folder, three others into a VW
camping folder, five others into a Syncro folder, two into a
Subaruvanagon folder, and 4 into a Mercedes and diesel folder. There
are a few more about cars and many other folders to hold quite a number
of other lists related to other subjects in which I am interested.
Sometimes, something ends up in the wrong folder, but I handle it.
When I see an email from the vanagon list in my vanagon folder, I see
several pieces of info above, like who it is from, who sent it, who the
reply will go to, etc. The item "To:" is followed by
"vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM" So, I filter emails that have the
character sequence "GERRY.VANAGON" in the "To:" item to go into my
Vanagon folder, though it is in local folders, not the inbox. I use
Mozilla Thunderbird for my email. Did the same with Netscape 7.2 email
before that.
The list is 11 years old. Thirty years ago, the first PC's had just
been out a year or so. A modem was a wild thing to have in a computer,
and Gerry was not around.
Sometimes I reply with pmail, sometimes to the list and sometimes
(usually) to both. Same with the yahoogroups lists. I can handle the
not so complicated fact that they work different ways. I am on some
other lists that aren't yahoogroups lists and some are different from
either Gerry or yahoo. Not a big deal, just have to think a little bit.
I remember what computers were like 30 and 35 years ago and am so
grateful for what we have now that a few imperfections or situations
that are not exactly identical to one another don't particularly bother me.
Yahoo groups have terrible search capabilities if you use their
interface. Gerry's search functions, though oft criticized, mainly by
people unfamiliar with free form database searching, are far better than
almost all of the lists I am on. Of course, the vast majority of them
are Yahoo based.
Sam
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Sam Walters
Baltimore, MD
89 Syncro GL, Zetec Inside
85 Westy Weekender
85 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbodiesel - to become veggie oil powered
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