Re: My current practise in using Conlang e-mails

From:    <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> Clint Jackson BAKER <litrex2@...> wrote:
> > I just deleted a zillion conlang e-mails.  Originally I had tried to
> > delete occasionally with the hope of getting to the ones I thought
> > useful.  But this hopelessly backfired when I saw that my account was
> > at 125% of its limit.
>
> The only way of dealing with the volume (short of leaving the list)
> is going NOMAIL.
I'm not so sure of that.  I used to regularly leave the list every
time a new school term began.  But I've found of late that, rather
than leaving or going NOMAIL, it's helpful to receive the emails in
digest form.  You still gets lots of extraneous material, but I find
it much easier to skip through all that by skimming in one sitting
than receiving individual emails separately.  At the very least,
this method doesn't clog up one's emailbox anywhere near as fast.

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Thomas Wier            "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally,
Dept. of Linguistics    because our secret police don't get it right
University of Chicago   half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of
1010 E. 59th Street     Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter.
Chicago, IL 60637

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