newsgroup

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

Tony (and other Outlook users)

  The following seems to work very well for me. Create a rule that searches for "This is the private
VTK discussion list" in the body of the message". 

Chris
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Christopher R. Volpe
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Computer Graphics & Systems Program
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|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Pan, Tony C (CRD) 
|> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:43 PM
|> To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
|> Subject: RE: newsgroup
|> 
|> 
|> The following is my pet peeve.  
|> 
|> The mail sorting would work wonderfully if people would use 
|> just *one* distribution list name instead
|> of 50, like "vtk", "vtk user mailing list", "vtk list", "vtk 
|> mail list", "vtk user list".  I have as
|> many inbox rules for my outlook as there are different ways 
|> people address this list, and I still
|> miss some of them.
|> 
|> It would also be nice if people would just use "to" instead 
|> of "cc" and "bcc" when emailing an entire
|> group. Since the mail is going to everyone anyway, why put 
|> it in cc?  I don't particularly like to
|> have two rules for each possible combination of words that 
|> addresses the same mail group.
|> 
|> So my suggestions: 1. use a single mail list name. 
|> "vtkusers at public.kitware.com" seems pretty good.
|> 2. use "To" field when mailing the entire group.
|> 
|> or alternatively, have a newsgroup.
|> 
|> 
|> This is not meant as a flame for the entire group, so don't 
|> take it as one.  I welcome constructive
|> comments.
|> 
|> Tony C. Pan
|> 
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Tim Hutton [mailto:T.Hutton at eastman.ucl.ac.uk]
|> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 5:06 AM
|> To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
|> Subject: Re: newsgroup
|> 
|> 
|> Just a thought, I'm sure email is easier for many people who 
|> don't have
|> straightforward access to newsgroups.
|> 
|> Also, don't most email programs have a feature that can 
|> filter messages
|> into separate folders automatically? That's what I do.
|> 
|> Cheers,
|> 
|> Tim.
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