Date:         Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:06:41 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: emails
Comments: To: Tom Patterson <tompatterson45@COMCAST.NET>
Comments: cc: Ben Tan <syncro@gmail.com>
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Hello Tom,
At 10:13 PM 8/25/2012, Tom Patterson wrote:
>I really appreciate the emails, and the input is great! I just have so
>many emails coming in from work-related things that it gets a bit
>overwhelming. But I will take the suggestions offered about changing the
>regularity of them. Glad to be a part of this group!

Welcome, glad you're enjoying it.  I see Ben Tan, our other
moderator, has already pointed you toward how you can set digest mode.

However I'd personally suggest that you'll find the list easier and
more enjoyable to deal with if you do one of two things
instead:  either set up a filter in Outlook (I think Outlook may call
it a rule) which diverts all mail  coming from
<vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> into a separate mailbox that you can
peruse at leisure; or get a gmail address that you use only for the list.

Learning to use Outlook's filters/rules should not be difficult and
you will find them a powerful tool for organizing your email in
general.  I use a different mail program so I can't tell you
step-by-step how to set up a filter; but I subscribe to something
like thirty lists of various persuasions and not a single message
from any of them shows up in my inbox.  I actually have over 100
filters set up: for the groups, for various vendors, for family, for
individuals.  Some of them make a distinctive chime or some
characters in Morse code when a message comes in, some don't.  Some
of them simply throw the message away.  You may or may not have as
great a range of possible actions as I do, but you will certainly be
able to filter messages into a separate mailbox.

As you can see, my belief is that once you start using mail filters
you'll never look back.  But if you don't want to do that, a
dedicated address just for the list also works very well.

Yours,
David