[Elecraft] Maintaining Sanity with Gmail Filters

[Roger Meadows]

If there was a like button, I'd press it. 

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> On Jul 29, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Kevin der Kinderen <kkinderen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For those with Gmail, the only way I have found to reduce the amount of
> reflector emails that don't interest me is to set up a filter.
> 
> The way I do this is to first do a search on the subject I'm no longer
> interested in: "K3S Package Discounts" for example. Then, beside the search
> field there's a little arrow you can click. The little popup has a "Create
> filter with this search" link at the bottom. Click this. The next popup
> lets you decide what to do with current and future emails that meet the
> criteria. I select mark as read and delete it. I wish it could do more with
> the emails but that's another matter. There's a Learn More link if you get
> stuck.
> 
> You can filter on many other search criteria such as sender. That comes in
> very handy.
> 
> It almost always works. Sometimes the subject changes a little and usually
> the digests where the subject is not changed make it through. I haven't
> found a better way but I'm open to suggestions. Unsubscribing means I lose
> out on some very relevant and otherwise interesting topics. Maybe another
> Elecraft list called Elecraft-BS or something?
> 
> Hope some find this helpful. It does reduce the inane conversations that
> drag on for hours and days. You may be able to test it with the subject of
> this post. It is a perfect example.
> 
> 73,
> Kev K4VD
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