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Date:         Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:02:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Don't clip your replies! (Friday discussion fodder)
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I know, I know, some long threads are unintelligible after morphing three or four times, but my strategy to manage long threads is to read the last post first, hoping to follow it back to the original post, or at least to have relevant recent posts in it to read.

It's much faster than clicking on 27 individual messages to try to figure what's been said and whether it's something I can contribute to.

For those of you using digest mode, give it up, it's useless. Just set up a folder and a rule to send all vanagon.com emails into it (I actually send vanagon, subaruvanagon, Westfalia, and Adventurewagen email into it), and sort it by subject (turn off your sound alerts too). This is much faster and easier than trying to use a digest posting, and text email takes a trivial amount of space and bandwidth.

Give it a try!

Stuart

'85 Westy, and well over 200 emails a day I manage this way


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