Mail overload (was: Nighttime and astrophotography with IR

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On  2 Sep 96 at 1:35, William Cress wrote:

> Willem:
> Hi
> I don't know what I did when I signed on to your group but I have been

You did a Wise Thing (tm), why?....;-))

> receiving all of the groups posting on my email every night. Since this
> is overloading me at the moment could you please remove me from
> receiving all of these postings. I do find the material very interesting
> however I normally receive 20-50 email daily and receiving another 30 is
> not manageable for me. 
> Thank You 
> Bill Cress

The problem is not the quantity of mail (30 postings _each day_ is a bit 
exaggerating though....;-)), but the way you manage it. 
There are two ways to make reading mail a whole lot more convenient:

- Switch to the digest (see your welcome message from listproc, it 
also tells you how to unsubscribe automagically; I will post it to 
the list again today)

- Use a smart mail client. If all your mail ends up in one generic
folder, you are doing things wrong. Modern mail clients can filter
incoming mail to their own folder, by looking at the header of
messages, and selecting on "Sender:", "From:", or "Reply To:" 

Try Pegasus/WinPmail (have it, love it, wouldn't know what to do
without it (I get 200-300 emails each day!)), Eudora (Pro?), Agent, 
and many more.

Maybe I should include this in the welcome message as well, before 
people will unsubscribe....:-))

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Bye,

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The difference 
between men and boys
is the price of their toys

<w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]

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