[Nottingham] Too much traffic

[Robert Davies]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 09:29, you wrote:
> > I much prefer mailing lists - mail comes in and it's there when I want
> > it. My MUA filters each list I'm on (around 50) into separate folders,
> > threads them and deletes mailing list messages over a specified age, so
> > in effect mailing lists look very much like newsgroups to me. I read the
> > threads that catch my eye and not the others. I can't see the difference
> > between that and a web forum really, except it's less hassle to visit.
> > I'd be unlikely to get around to visiting a web forum, but I cast my eye
> > over the list occasionally.
> > --
> > Chris Hastie
>
> What e-mail clients are people using, At present I am using Evolution
> 1.0.8-10 and although it does have some features I do not seem to have a
> kill thread option or be able to delete mails from folders older than a
> week.
>
> So any suggestions for a change ?

I'm using Kmail, filters and does threading, handles the list easily.  I 
never actually delete list emails either (apart from dulplicates, or 
unsubscribes sent in error etc), so have 1000's of messages now.

Rob