Best practices to follow/read large mailing-lists?

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You're probably a lot to be subscribers to various mailing list, some more updated than others.

What are your best practices to follow all information going by these lists?
What are the best clients you've used to managed that?

I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to get the best signal out of this noisy way of communication :)

@Robhruska The link is dead, but probably helpful, can you update it, please?! — Kalle Richter, Jul 24 '18 at 10:48
Here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20170426175120/www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html — azmr, Nov 03 '19 at 10:19

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:32

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I like gmail because of the way it groups messages by conversation so I can just page down through a thread.

answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:32

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:52

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Use a rule in GMail to slap a label on and archive all of them. Then they are easily sortable, searchable, and threaded.

answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:52

TheSoftwareJedi

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 28 '18 at 10:45

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I just use Thunderbird. For some lists, in flat mode, for others (the Lua mailing list), in threaded mode. Following is natural for mailing list, the messages are pushed to your client.

At first, I just received the messages and routed them to the right folder with some rules.

Now, I read them as newsgroups using Gmane, which also allow to catch up history (including mails which were sent before my subscription started and those which were sent during a temporary unsubscription).

Sometime, when a thread has no interest for me, I just right click on the first message and select Mark all messages of this thread as read.

edited Aug 28 '18 at 10:45

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answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:37

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As said, messages are neatly / automatically threaded in their own newsgroup section, and you can use a newsgroup client instead, if you find it more convenient. And as said, it allows to access history, not to be limited to the messages emitted after your subscription. Note that with this method, you have to tell the ML not to send you messages... Still have to subscribe to be allowed to post, of course. – PhiLho Aug 28 '18 at 10:41
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I didn't think about that, although it's pretty trivial. I suggested an edit which doesn't hurt imo. Thanks for the clarification. – Kalle Richter Aug 28 '18 at 10:46

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:55

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Using KDE Ia m using Kontact for my mail and RSS feeds. That gives me a nice command center.

answered Dec 08 '08 at 23:55

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That doesn't explain how to follow large mailing lists since this setup seems essentially identical to what other setups provide. – Kalle Richter Aug 25 '18 at 08:02

Best practices to follow/read large mailing-lists?

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