[Noisebridge-discuss] inbox filters on lists (boxbe etc)

[Jesse Zbikowski]

I just wanted to pass on a tip on filtering on such high-volume
mailing lists as Noisebridge-discuss. In GMail I can automatically
"Star" messages coming from senders who I have known to make helpful
posts. That way when I am catching up on hundreds of unread messages,
I can quickly see those ones I don't want to skip.

(Side note: although GMail is proprietary software, I periodically
export my filters to an .XML file, so that someday when I find a free
email program that meets my needs, I will be able to import my filter
collection).

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> After my most recent noisebridge-discuss post, I received this message:
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 07:57:49PM -0800, noreply at boxbe.com wrote:
>> Hello Andy Isaacson,
>>
>> Your message about "Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] A cowboy hat"
>> has been waitlisted.
>>
>> Please add yourself to my Boxbe Guest List so your messages will
>> go to my Inbox.
>>
>> Click the link below to be added:
> [snip]
>>
>>
>>   Thank you,
> [snip email]
>
> I've removed the offending subscriber from noisebridge-discuss, and
> Bcc'd them on this message (but of course they won't *get* that Bcc
> since they're refusing my email).
>
> There are 587 people subscribed to noisebridge-discuss.  If everyone
> used such opt-in inbox filtering, every new poster to the list would
> have to click through 500 filter messages.  Opt-in inbox filtering
> doesn't scale, so please stop inflicting it on the rest of us.
>
> Thanks,
> -andy
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