I second the secondly.&nbsp; Viewing forum email by conversation is amazing and reduces so much clutter.&nbsp; <br><br>The Google bandwagon (Jonathan plugs it - now it&#39;s my turn): Simon recommended mozilla thunderbird to sort conversations by conversation.&nbsp; I strongly recommend using Gmail for email for personal accounts or organizational accounts.&nbsp; It sorts by conversation and will keep you inbox simple with many email lists coming to you.
<br><br>Something that I&#39;ve started doing in my inbox is applying a filter to add a label to all list serve messages.&nbsp; In gmail the label appears before the subject so it has the effect of indenting conversations that you have the label applied to (I like to use the label &quot;......&quot; so that it is a simple indent).&nbsp; I took a screenshot of my inbox to show you guys.&nbsp; Recently I had been having the trouble of having so many email list messages that I was loosing track of stuff I needed.&nbsp; This has helped a ton!&nbsp; 
<br><br>Nathan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Z</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:youractionsdefineyou@gmail.com">youractionsdefineyou@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">



  

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Don&#39;t the think tank archives act as an informal forum already? <br>
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Can subscribers set their email preferences to no mail and read/respond
via the archives only?<br>
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Also, if folks are having trouble keeping up with mail, but still
prefer mail to forums, I would suggest 2 things. <b><br>
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First </b>- set up a folder in your web mail account or mail browser
for the think tank mails (to stop them cluttering up your inbox) and
create a filer to channel all mail with [TheThinkTank] in the subject
to that folder. <br>
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<b>Secondly</b> - change your web mail or web browser view
options/prefs so that it threads emails by topic. Instead of 20 emails
on one topic cluttering up your email, you have the first email on a
particular subject, with a drop down arrow (in mozilla thunderbird) to
display all the subsequent messages on the same topic. <br>
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<b>Results</b> - email freedom.<br>
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Simon<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="e" id="q_115a647924ecca9a_1">What about moving to a web forum?&nbsp; That may be a better
way to catalog information.&nbsp; Just a thought.&nbsp; <br>
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  <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Morrison</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jonathan@slcbikecollective.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jonathan@slcbikecollective.org
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the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list,
you can go to &#39;daily digest&#39; mode.&nbsp; Which will only send you one email
per day containing all the emails of that day.<br>
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To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the
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