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Jason M Evans
jasonevans9 at cox.net
Sat May 8 02:58:11 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 20:04, Neil Hodge wrote:
> All:
>
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 16:30, Juan Carlos Inostroza wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:14, jasonevans9 at cox.net wrote:
> > > Can I request to fedora list that I only receive emails
> > > responding to my questions? I tried keeping up with all of it,
> > > because I am eager to learn, but I am overwhelmed. I better stick
> > > to a few things at a time.
> >
> > A little OT.
> >
> > Well, that's what mailing lists are for. To read a question from
> > somebody and read the answers from somebody else. If you want to stick
> > to "reading only the emails with the answers to my questions", then
> > stick to some other type of help (technical support, maybe).
> >
> > BTW, i have learned a lot of tricks for Fedora from other people's
> > messages. Even if i cannot keep track of all the messages from this
> > mailing list. And it's worth the time. So, take your time, or select all
> > the mails from this ML and press Ctrl-K sometimes (on Evolution, it
> > works ;-) )
> >
>
> Another good way to use this list:
>
> * I filter all of the posts to a mail folder, so they don't clog up my
> inbox.
>
> * Once or twice a week, I browse the subjects, to see if anything
> interesting stands out.
>
> * If I ever need some specific information, I can search the full text
> of all postings, which is much faster than looking at the archive on the
> web.
>
> So, as you see, you don't really need to read all of the postings for
> this list to be useful.
>
> Neil Hodge
>
>
Thanks, Neil! That should do it!
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