Re: Mail overload (was: Nighttime and astrophotography with IR

[eyesite@xxxxxxxxxx (David Mendelsohn)]

Here's another one.....someone keeps misposting messages to me.......

David




>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....:-))
>
>--
>Bye,
>
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>The difference
>between men and boys
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>
><w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
>[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]


David   Mendelsohn
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