[R] Newsgroup

[Timothy H. Keitt]

The reply-to-list is quite useful IMHO. The real solution is to filter
your list email into separate folders. Its quite easy with procmail,
although I currently use evolutions filters (and a seperate email
address for lists).

Tim

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:39, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
> I agree with you: the list is VERY busy. This is sometimes a problem for
> modem users with rather poor internet facilities (my case). An
> alternative to your proposal would be to adopt the same behaviour as for
> S-news: reply directly to the caller who summarizes to the group. Of
> course, it's more time-consuming for the caller, but it should divide at
> least by 2 or 3 the number of messages on R-Help...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Renaud
> 
> ggrothendieck at yifan.net wrote:
> > 
> > This morning I had 37 messages from the r-help list in my mailbox.
> > I think its becoming excessive for an e-mail list.
> > 
> > I wonder if whoever looks after this list could either move or gateway
> > it to a usenet group?
> > 
> > That would also eliminate the need for special purpose archiving and
> > searching facilities since the site:
> > 
> > http://groups.google.com
> > 
> > would automatically provide that. That site also allows one to both read
> > and post via the web (with a delay of several hours) in case one does not
> > care to use newsgroup software.
> > 
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