[Elecraft] Maintaining Sanity with Filters

Sun Jul 30 21:06:09 EDT 2017

And here I thought this thread was about Roofing *filters and their
potential to harm a ham's mental stability.*

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Drew AF2Z <pubx1 at af2z.net> wrote:

> It's quite easy to scan the subject lines of individual emails, sorted by
> subject in a mail reader, and instantly deleted en masse if need be, rather
> than plowing through a serial listing of random topics in a digest; "speed
> reading" or no.
>
> Also, with the tap of a key one can save the occasional interesting post
> for future reference. Can't do that in a digest.
>
> After all these years on the internet the only slight irritation I have
> with email lists are subject lines such as "Question" or "How about this",
> etc. I assume that when someone hasn't put any thought into the subject
> line the rest of the post will not be worth reading. Such non-specific
> topics usually get deleted without further inspection. I don't mind
> off-topic posts at all if the subject line is descriptive of the content.
> Most list traffic is "off topic" to my narrow individual interests.
>
> I enjoy quickly sorting the wheat from the chaff with a good mail reader.
> It's the email equivalent of a good HF receiver. Both deal with retrieving
> information from the noisy channel. Using a mail reader effectively does
> require touch typing ability and familiarity with the shortcut keys. If I
> had to do it by mouse clicking my way through each individual message in
> turn, that would indeed be agonizing.
>
> The only reason I read the current thread is because I thought the topic
> was referring to receiver filters, not email filters. But maybe the above
> will help.
>
>
> 73,
> Drew
> AF2Z
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/30/17 16:41, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>
>> At one point during my time teaching law school some of my students
>> suggested that drafting regulations when market forces are arrayed against
>> you is like playing Whack-a-Mole.  Never having heard of it before, I
>> looked into it.  Apparently Whack-a-Mole is generic for machines found in
>> bars where graduate students go, in which the player whacks a plastic mole
>> with a rubber mallet only to see another pop up from some other spot on the
>> playing field.  I didn’t see much point in the game, then or now, other
>> than as an outlet for educational frustration or just excess testosterone.
>> But the simile was apt.
>>
>> Can a G-mail or any other filter really identify subjects whose name
>> changes from time to time – notice that I changed the title of this thread
>> by dropping just one word.  Or another example – in how many ways would I
>> have to type title descriptions into a filter that would make it block
>> posts that try to instruct Elecraft how to run its business?  Whack-a-Mole,
>> indeed.   Conversely, are filters smart enough to allow through those posts
>> that use the same name but whose contents have migrated to something
>> actually worth reading?  My favorite example of that was an excruciatingly
>> long thread a couple of years ago about using KX3s for communications on
>> motorcycle club rides.  I couldn’t care less about the nominal subject –
>> but I did learn a good deal about portable use of my KX3.   Ditto more
>> recently for finding the right grounding point on a Chevy Silverado.  Gems
>> of all sorts in that one.
>>
>> My solution is to take the reflector not in individual e-mails but in the
>> once or twice daily collected format, whatever that’s called, then do a
>> quick speed-read to ID what interests me. I don’t even bother with the
>> delete key.  For extreme cases the nudging of a human moderator usually
>> helps a lot.  Works great.
>>
>> Maybe I am just not yet ready to trust AI to replicate my judgment.  Am I
>> wrong in that?  After all, Whack-a-Mole is a good metaphor for the habit of
>> being a Luddite too.
>>
>> Ted, KN1CBR
>>
>>
>>      Message: 1
>>      Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:55:46 -0400
>>      From: Kevin der Kinderen <kkinderen at gmail.com>
>>      To: Elecraft Reflector Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>>      Subject: [Elecraft] Maintaining Sanity with Gmail Filters
>>      Message-ID:
>>         <CAFA9ujtvMzU_F035NtDTJwpiTyQ635EpbwpjCpCaifeQaOO1oA at mail.
>> gmail.com>
>>      Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>           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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