[Ilugc] Request to Digest Mode Subscribers
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Mon Jun 22 21:46:27 2009
Hello,
Disclaimer: I do have a gmail account but I do not use it (a) much
or (b) via the web.
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Ashok Gautham wrote:
i) Create a new email-id for the lug. eg. If your name/nick of choice
is Foo Bar/FooBar, create a gmail id called FooBar.ilugc@xxxxxxxxx. (I
had a spare id that I created by mistake).
I am curious as to why you suggest this.
Does gmail does not have a way to automatically classify incoming mail
into different mail folders? I recall something called "tags" which
seemed to be similar to mail folders.
The digest mode is for people who wish to see the messages only
once in a while _and_ use an antiquated mail program.
With most modern mail programs it is easy to classifying incoming mail
into folders so that one does not have to read a particular folder
until one wants to. You can even set up "auto-aging" so that messages
older than a certain date are automatically erased.
There are a number of reasons why one should try to use one (or a
small number of) e-mail id(s) for as long as possible. Primarily, in
the FOSS world it allows people to identify your interaction with the
community.
Regards,
Kapil.
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