To: rbryant 
From: Nathan Hendler 
Subject: Re: Volume.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:24:59 -0700 (MST)


Everyone,

	I got this message from Robert concerning the amount of emails
this list is generating, and I'm sure many of you might have the same
concerns, so please read:

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, rbryant wrote:

> Nathan,
> 
> I'm happy to see that the Metropolitan emailing list is a success.  I was
> wondering whether there might be a way that every eletter sent between
> participants does not necessarily need to show up in my emailbox.  I enjoy
> reading the unbridled enthusiasm about my favorite car as much as the next
> guy, but the sheer volume has become somewhat overwhelming.  Today I came
> home to eighteen messages, none of which were for me.  Is there a possible
> remedy for this short of asking to be unsubscribed? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert 

Robert,

There are two solutions that I can see.

The first is that you set up an email filter.  If you are using Eudora,
this is easy to do under the 'tools' menu.  I'd have your mail client
filter any email that has metropolitan@listserv.azstarnet.com anywhere in
the header to a metropolitan mailbox.  Then, when you have time you can
open up that mailbox and sort through it at your convenience.

Second requires work on my end.  It's called a digest.  This bundles a set
amount of posts to the list into one email and sends it out to you.  For
example, I could set it up to send out a digest once a week, so you'd get
one email containing about 70 messages in it.

As I've mentioned before, I don't like digests.  I've been on them, and I
never participate.  Filters aren't hard to set up, and do the job nicely.
With filters you can open up that met mailbox once a week, and quickly
read the ones that look interesting.  Digests make it hard to skip around
from message to message since it's one giant email.

If anyone needs help setting up a filter you can ask me for help at
equant@azstarnet.com.

Nathan Hendler