Switching to daily digest mode on this list.
If the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list, you can go to 'daily digest' mode. Which will only send you one email per day containing all the emails of that day.
To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the re-subscribe using this form: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
When you re-subscribe make sure you say "Yes" to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"
What about moving to a web forum? That may be a better way to catalog information. Just a thought.
oooooh, i second this idea...
On 10/15/07, Chris Dougherty chris@sacbikekitchen.org wrote:
What about moving to a web forum? That may be a better way to catalog information. Just a thought.
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
On 10/15/07, Jonathan Morrison jonathan@slcbikecollective.org wrote:
If the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list, you can go to 'daily digest' mode. Which will only send you one email per day containing all the emails of that day.
To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the re-subscribe using this form: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
When you re-subscribe make sure you say "Yes" to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"
-- Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
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I second the secondly. Viewing forum email by conversation is amazing and reduces so much clutter.
The Google bandwagon (Jonathan plugs it - now it's my turn): Simon recommended mozilla thunderbird to sort conversations by conversation. I strongly recommend using Gmail for email for personal accounts or organizational accounts. It sorts by conversation and will keep you inbox simple with many email lists coming to you.
Something that I've started doing in my inbox is applying a filter to add a label to all list serve messages. 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 "......" so that it is a simple indent). I took a screenshot of my inbox to show you guys. Recently I had been having the trouble of having so many email list messages that I was loosing track of stuff I needed. This has helped a ton!
Nathan
On 10/15/07, Simon Z youractionsdefineyou@gmail.com wrote:
Don't the think tank archives act as an informal forum already?
Can subscribers set their email preferences to no mail and read/respond via the archives only?
Also, if folks are having trouble keeping up with mail, but still prefer mail to forums, I would suggest 2 things. *
First *- 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.
*Secondly* - 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.
*Results* - email freedom.
Simon
Chris Dougherty wrote:
What about moving to a web forum? That may be a better way to catalog information. Just a thought.
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
On 10/15/07, Jonathan Morrison jonathan@slcbikecollective.org wrote:
If the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list, you can go to 'daily digest' mode. Which will only send you one email per day containing all the emails of that day.
To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the re-subscribe using this form: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
When you re-subscribe make sure you say "Yes" to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"
-- Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
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I forgot the screen shot of filters and labels in action.
On 10/16/07, Nathan Wilkes nwilkes2@gmail.com wrote:
I second the secondly. Viewing forum email by conversation is amazing and reduces so much clutter.
The Google bandwagon (Jonathan plugs it - now it's my turn): Simon recommended mozilla thunderbird to sort conversations by conversation. I strongly recommend using Gmail for email for personal accounts or organizational accounts. It sorts by conversation and will keep you inbox simple with many email lists coming to you.
Something that I've started doing in my inbox is applying a filter to add a label to all list serve messages. 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 "......" so that it is a simple indent). I took a screenshot of my inbox to show you guys. Recently I had been having the trouble of having so many email list messages that I was loosing track of stuff I needed. This has helped a ton!
Nathan
On 10/15/07, Simon Z youractionsdefineyou@gmail.com wrote:
Don't the think tank archives act as an informal forum already?
Can subscribers set their email preferences to no mail and read/respond via the archives only?
Also, if folks are having trouble keeping up with mail, but still prefer mail to forums, I would suggest 2 things. *
First *- 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.
*Secondly* - 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.
*Results* - email freedom.
Simon
Chris Dougherty wrote:
What about moving to a web forum? That may be a better way to catalog information. Just a thought.
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
On 10/15/07, Jonathan Morrison <jonathan@slcbikecollective.org > wrote:
If the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list, you can go to 'daily digest' mode. Which will only send you one email per day containing all the emails of that day.
To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the re-subscribe using this form: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
When you re-subscribe make sure you say "Yes" to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"
-- Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
-- Chris Dougherty Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
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