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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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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