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Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:49:43 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
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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Have you tried ProNews/2?

It's on Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2v159.zip

John H. Lindsay wrote:
> 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.

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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