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Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:36:25 -0700
From:	"John H. Lindsay" <jlindsay@kingston.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Smart ways to organize one's e-mail?

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Colin wrote:
> This week, I tried making some folders for three of my
> main correspondents. I copied what I've sent them, and
> what they've sent me, to these folders, and sorted them
> by Date, Descending, Threaded. So far, so good. (I
> haven't yet gone back and cleaned up the Sent and Inbox
> folders.) Can I tell the Mail & Newsgroups client to
> store copies of our future correspondence in these
> folders, or do I have to do more copying at regular
> intervals?

> Is this an intelligent way to clean up the Inbox? What
> do you folks do to keep track of your e-mail?

From the incoming mail from several mailing lists and a
good selection of news groups I keep copies of perhaps
10% of the messages and postings; they form a very
valuable reference and archive to me. I have a good
collection of subfolders in my Local Folders, even
sub-subfolders, named by subject or area of interest, and
as I process messages in my inbox and postings, I move or
copy anything of interest to me into appropriate folders.
I try to keep my inbox empty, and seldom leave anything in
the inbox for later reply or comment more than a day.

One thing I intend to ask the Mozilla Thunderbird people
for is an easy way to sort and group the newsgroups in the
newsgroups listings (? folders, subfolders, ...?) . I
have many newsgroups that I look at occasionally, depending
on what is going on in my hot furious mind at the moment --
all the java groups, my favourite compting language groups,
utilities, .... If I open up a particular news server, I
get all the newsgroups on that server checked when I don't
really want that. I can't even get 2 news accounts with
the same server; the attempt to set up a second account
with the same server does nothing. Rats.

John.

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