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Re: Thread Marking, news-by-mail?
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Date: 
Wed, 3 May 2000 21:48:01 GMT
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mattdm@!ihatespam!mattdm.org
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:
threads would be heavy (although cool!), but would it be possible to sign up
for news-by-mail for a particular thread?

Sure. Sign up to get a newsgroup by mail, and then use your e-mail program's
filtering mechanism to zap everything but the threads you want.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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Boston University Linux             --->                http://linux.bu.edu/



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  Re: Thread Marking, news-by-mail?
 
(...) Yahoo isn't that smart, it's only got 3megs of space and setting up individual filters for each thread is much harder than clicking a "subscribe to thread" button on the web-interface. But yeah - I could do that if I wasn't so lazy :) Richard (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Thread Marking, news-by-mail?
 
As I don't read every message in LUGNET, there are sometimes interesting threads in groups that I don't check regularly and I miss out because of that. I imagine that building a web-interface mechanism for tracking individual threads would be heavy (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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