[Elecraft] Deleting OT

[Walter Underwood]

One approach is to have two lists. An elecraft-announce list would only allow posts from Elecraft. It might allow some moderated posts. An elecraft-discuss list would be like the current list.

This was a common convention when I first started following email lists 35 years ago.

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Walter Underwood
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> On Jun 16, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom,
> 
> As far as I know, there is no way to do that for digests.  But if you are downloading the digest to your computer and not wanting it on your smartphone or other web based application, then read on.
> 
> If you have an email client on your computer, IMHO subscribing to the digest is a cumbersome way to view the Elecraft email list.
> Subscribe to individual emails.
> Create a folder in your email client for the Elecraft emails.
> Set a filter to place all incoming emails with [Elecraft] into that folder.
> Presto -- you have your own digest on your computer.
> 
> If you do not want to see the OT posts, simply create a filter to place anything with "OT" into into your trash.
> 
> Mozilla Thunderbird works nicely and is free - multiplatform as well.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> On 6/16/2018 11:20 AM, Thomas Schaefer wrote:
>> While inevitably I will hear from people that I should just click hit the DELETE key, I get the digest form of this email list. One cannot really delete only the OT posts when using the digest.
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to have the qth.net list software automatically remove posts that start with OT in the subject?
>> I subscribe to this list to get information about the Elecraft line of equipment (KPA1500 is the latest). I am not sure if it is boredom or lack of other outlets that folks believe they can post things that have absolutely nothing to do with Elecraft. For the record, as I have been in the Elecraft dog house before for mentioning this, I am not suggesting what people should post.
>>  I am asking a legitimate question if anyone knows a way I could mercifully make it stop—short of unsubscribing and losing the actual useful content otherwise. I suspect I could switch to individual emails and simply setup a rule to automatically delete anything that starts with OT. Then just delete posts by people that  post things unrelated to Elecraft.
>> Thanks in advance if anyone knows a way to do that for digests.
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