[Elecraft] e-mail list confusion

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I find most people do put K2, K3 etc in their postings and this is how I do
this in Entiurage, which is the MS Mac equivalent of Outlook, I'm about to
switch to Apple PIM (address book, iCal, Mail) and will do equivalent in
there.

1. using Mail List Manager (you can use rules), set a category of Electraft
on all mail from the Elecraft Reflector

Then rules for any mail marked as Elecraft in step 1 ...
2. if it has K3 in the subject, stop processing more rules
3. if it has K1, KX1 or K2 in the subject, delete it

73 de M0XDF / K3 #174


On 24/02/2008 13:51, "Tom Z" <kg3vtomz at gmail.com> sent:

> I keep trying to find a way to sort this list so I can read about K2
> stuff, without fishing through hundrds of messages to determine what
> is relevant. At one time there was strong guidance to put the radio
> family (K1 K2 K3) at the beggining of the Subject line. That is a
> great idea, but nobody does it. Would there be any objection to
> readers changing thread names to add that?
> 
> I have tried filters, but they (at least what my ISP offers) just
> don't work very well. You never really know if/where the family name
> will be found in messages, and I see more cases recently where it is
> challenging to tell what family is being addressed after I read the
> message.
> 
> Is there any reconsideration of separating the list? It seems llike
> there is plenty of traffic to support at least two lists. Anybody can
> subscribe to multiple lists, so I don't see how separate lists could
> be bad
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Tom KG3V


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