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[Mike]

heikki kindly noted that I forgot to send this to the list :)

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my mailing list behaviour is almost identical to what heikki just 
described - for me it was also the transition from newsgroups to mailing 
lists that was the driving force to that kind of layout

bear

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> 1. What made you decide to file your mailing list messages into 
>> separate folders (1 per list) as opposed to a single mailing list 
>> folder or a couple of mailing list folders based on priority or topic 
>> (ie. Must-do reading, Should-do reading, 
>> Only-if-I-have-nothing-better-to-do reading)
>
>
> Since I also tend to create one folder per list (some exceptions, when 
> the topics are really close to each other), I decided I'd answer for 
> myself.
>
> * When you subscribe to a mailinglist, you will get instructions on 
> how to unsubscribe. When I have mailinglists in separate folders I can 
> easily find the instructions on how to unsubscribe - just look at the 
> oldest message.
>
> * I can easily scan the message headers to see what is junk that my 
> spam filters missed. This is possible because each list is very 
> narrowly focused.
>
> * I prefer newsgroups over mailinglists (newsgroups have hierarchies). 
> By using folders I can partially simulate this.
>
> * Many lists that I subscribe to are really specific and have almost 
> nothing in common with other lists. For example Twisted and wxPython. 
> I may even ignore messages in those folders until I again start 
> working in that area.
>
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