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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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