[Elecraft] Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

[Roger D Johnson]

Let's see....

Assuming the computer is running here's what I have to do:

1. Bring up Thunderbird mail program

2. Select Elecraft folder

3. Scroll down and click on the email I want to read.

For Antique Radio Forum, which I like very much, I do this:

1. Bring up ARF

2. Click on topic I want

3. Scroll through and click on email I want to read.

Looks pretty much the same to me except ARF has things neatly categorized and
topics that interest me are easy to find.

73, Roger N1RJ


On 8/19/2017 2:22 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
> Oh, please don't.
>
> A "push" technology, like E-Mail means that more of us will participate.
>
> Web Based forums are a "pull" -- one has to be dedicated enough to go to the 
> forum.  It slows the tempo and reduces participation.
>
> It isn't a magic bullet.  People still post in forum sections off topic.
>
> Before I retired, I ran an ISP and did E-Mail professionally, including mail 
> filtering.  The greatest tool I found is called PopFile.
>
> PopFile can, with a minimal amount of work, split out mail by product 
> mentioned.  You don't have to figure out what keywords to use, you just have 
> to move mail that is mis-classified to the right place.  Takes a couple of 
> days worth of mail to train to 90% accuracy or so, and not long after before 
> it's near 99%.
>
> 73 -- Lynn
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