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Re: Group coalescing (was: Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection)
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> The simplest way to split the mailing list messages into their original
> groups is to ask your email software to sort messages by the 'From:' field
> (this is supported by virtually every email package).  Of course, this
> doesn't actually break them apart into separate folders, but you'll see
> all the castle messages together, all the robotics messages together, etc.
> 
> The fancier way is to set up inbox filters in your email application, so that
> it automatically files incoming messages into folders that you specify.  So,
> if you wanted, you could have all the castle messages go into a Castle folder,
> all of the robotics messages go into a Robotics folder, etc.  The field to
> match on here is also the 'From:' header of the messages.

you did mean the "To:" field, right?  The from for your message was "Todd
Lehman" - the To was "lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com" :)

Just nitpicking :P

Dan



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  Re: Group coalescing (was: Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection)
 
(...) d'Oh! Yes, doy, thank you! (...) Nitpicking == GOOD in my book! --Todd (27 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Group coalescing (was: Re: It's time to get rid of my Technic Collection)
 
(...) Oopsy, I almost forgot -- I know the answer to the second part of that question... Yes, the News-by-Mail facility has the collapsing/coalescing property. In fact, since all the mailing list messages sent by the server come to you at a single (...) (27 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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