Rails - Jul 2006 - Best way to sort the emails in a mailing list?

I know this isn''t really rails related, but I was wondering if anyone  
had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they''ve been  
involved with and which ones they haven''t. That way when a new email  
comes in and its in a thread you''ve been involved with,  you could  
move it to another folder.

I''ve looked at the email headers and can''t find out a way to
do this.
It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to  
my question.

Thanks for the help.

Thank You,
Ben Johnson
E: bjohnson@contuitive.com



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Ben Johnson wrote:
> I know this isn''t really rails related, but I was wondering if
anyone
> had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they''ve
been
> involved with and which ones they haven''t. That way when a new
email
> comes in and its in a thread you''ve been involved with,  you could
> move it to another folder.
> 
> I''ve looked at the email headers and can''t find out a way
to do this.
> It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to
> my question.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Thank You,
> Ben Johnson
> E: bjohnson@contuitive.com
Ben,

I am replying to this question from www.ruby-forum.com.  I subscribe to 
the mailing list and have it go to a junk yahoo account (gmail would 
probably be a better choice).  Until recently, ruby-forum had search 
capabilities but it is temporarily disabled.  Fortunately, I can still 
search through my yahoo mail for topics I''m interested in finding.

Anyway - ruby-forum is a better way to see the threads and cuts down on 
the "sifting" that you have to do.  It isn''t a perfect
solution to your
problem but it gets you closer.

Question for Ruby-forum:  If I have an account, do you have the ability 
to see all my posts and go directly to those threads?  How many posts I 
have made, etc...  To date, I have only used the guest feature which 
doesn''t have this.  This would solve Bens problem (especially with a 
"notify when thread is answered" feature.

It would also be nice to click on a registered users name and see all 
the posts they have made.

Regards,

Michael

mmodica at cox dot net

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Ben Johnson wrote:
> I know this isn''t really rails related, but I was wondering if
anyone
> had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they''ve
been
> involved with and which ones they haven''t. That way when a new
email
> comes in and its in a thread you''ve been involved with,  you could
> move it to another folder.
> 
> I''ve looked at the email headers and can''t find out a way
to do this.
> It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to
> my question.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Thank You,
> Ben Johnson
> E: bjohnson@contuitive.com
I subsrcibe via gmail and set up filters for all that I''m in. Works 
great for me.

(I''m on ruby-forum now though for another reason and saw your post)


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So I went ahead and registered on ruby-forum (as I should have done a 
long time ago) and when you make a post on ruby-forum there is an option 
for "email notification" that you can enable or disable on the thread
to
which you have created or responded.

You can also see a list of registered users and how many posts they have 
made.  Andreas - have you thought about taking that one step further so 
that when I click on a users name it will show me all related posts from 
that user (either myself or another).

Regards,

Michael

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Michael -

You may also find Nabble to serve your needs: http://www.nabble.com/ 
RubyOnRails-Users-f13831.html

I''ve been disappointed with the regular downtimes (especially with  
search), also with the poor search options with ruby-forum.

I think there''s a firefox nabble search plugin somewhere as well.

cheers,
Jodi

On 23-Jul-06, at 1:57 PM, Michael Modica wrote:
> So I went ahead and registered on ruby-forum (as I should have done a
> long time ago) and when you make a post on ruby-forum there is an  
> option
> for "email notification" that you can enable or disable on the  
> thread to
> which you have created or responded.
>
> You can also see a list of registered users and how many posts they  
> have
> made.  Andreas - have you thought about taking that one step  
> further so
> that when I click on a users name it will show me all related posts  
> from
> that user (either myself or another).
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Jodi,

Thank you - nabble is very intuitive and has a nice interface.  I had 
not heard of it previously.

Michael



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On Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 11:54:50AM -0500, Ben Johnson
wrote:
> I know this isn''t really rails related, but I was wondering if
anyone had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they''ve
been
> involved with and which ones they haven''t. That way when a new
email comes in and its in a thread you''ve been involved with,  you
could move it
> to another folder.
muttng kicks ass. for proper use, you need procmail as well. 

its sorting is damn fast, as well, not to mention regex search, and all the
usual slew of goodies, like color-coding threads youve replied to, or have read,
or tagged, and of course emacs as the text editor doesnt hurt either .

if you mean on the web? i dunno. i havent found a good maildir-enabled webapp
that works the way i''d want (basically like muttng, but with better
searching and a frontpage to see several lists at once)