Thanks David and Robert !

I am currently experimenting using two methods : (1) Gmail for threading 
and archiving using filters. (2) Using Thunderbird as a newsgroup reader 
by subscribing to gmane.

I plan to do these both for few weeks before picking one of them.

Regards,
Saravanan

On 07/15/2011 04:53 PM, David Smith wrote:
> I use filters in gmail as well, and it works great. Here's my filter 
> for r-devel:
>
> Has the words: list:"r-devel.r-project.org <http://r-devel.r-project.org>"
> Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "r-devel", Never send it to Spam
>
> A really easy way to create mailing list filters in Gmail is to click 
> "show details" on the From line of the email, and then click "Filter 
> messages from this mailing list".
>
> Hope this helps,
> # David Smith
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Robert M. Flight <rflight79@gmail.com 
> <mailto:rflight79@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Saravanan,
>
>     You don't need a separate GMail account, as others suggested. I use
>     GMail as my client, and I have FILTERS set up to catch any R-Help, etc
>     (really anything that comes from a specific address), archive the
>     message so I don't see it in my inbox (unless someone is replying
>     directly to me in addition to sending to R-help), and then I can view
>     the emails at my leisure.
>
>     HTH,
>
>     -Robert
>
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>
>     On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 15:26, Saravanan
>     <saravanan.thirumuruganathan@gmail.com
>     <mailto:saravanan.thirumuruganathan@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Thanks Steve and Brian !
>     >
>     > Probably, I will create a gmail account for mailing lists and
>     let it take
>     > care of the threading.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Saravanan
>     >
>     > On 07/07/2011 12:02 PM, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> Hello,
>     >>>
>     >>> I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am
>     >>> sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more
>     suitable. I
>     >>> am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list
>     management. I have
>     >>> my options set that it sends a email digest. One thing I find
>     is that
>     >>> the digest consists of emails that ordered temporarlly. For eg
>     lets say
>     >>> there are two threads t1 and t2 and the emails arrive as e1 of
>     t1, e2 of
>     >>> t2, e3 of t3  . The digest lists them as e1,e2 and then e3. Is it
>     >>> possible to somehow configure it as T1 : e1,e3 and then T2 : e2 ?
>     >>>
>     >>> This is the digest format that google groups uses which is
>     incredibly
>     >>> helpful as you can read all the messages in a thread.
>     Additionally, it
>     >>> also helpfully includes a header that lists all the threads in
>     digest so
>     >>> that you can jump to the one you are interested in. I checked the
>     >>> mailman options but could not find any.
>     >>>
>     >>> Does anyone else have the same issue? It is not a big issue in
>     R-devel
>     >>> but R-help is a much more high traffic mailing list. I am
>     interested in
>     >>> hearing how you read/filter your digest mails in either R-help
>     or other
>     >>> high volume mailing lists.
>     >>
>     >> This really has nothing to do with R, but rather mailman.
>     >>
>     >> I use folders, filtered on the server using SIEVE and/or
>     procmail.  No
>     >> digest required. I get the mails immediately, not later in the
>     day or
>     >> the next day,  and can use all my various email clients easily to
>     >> read/respond.
>     >>
>     >> mailman supports a MIME digest format that includes a table of
>     contents
>     >> with links to each MIME part.  mailman does not support a threaded
>     >> digest, to the best of my knowledge.
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >>
>     >>    - Brian
>     >>
>     >
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