On 9/18/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
I use gmail. I could possibly set up a filter to
automatically delete
messages from certain people, but I'm not sure if that would work or
not, it wouldn't delete messages made in reply to those messages from
certain people, and sometimes those people send messages which are
actually interesting. As for hitting the delete key, that actually
doesn't work in gmail, if you hit delete it deletes the entire thread.
And it's fairly useless anyway, because once I've wasted the time
scanning the email to figure out if it's worth reading I've wasted
plenty of time already.
It does work. I have a filter for <certain people> that reads "skip
inbox, delete it". It just sends those individual messages to the
trash folder without killing the rest of the "conversation" that Gmail
sets up for each thread. I find that the replies are generally much
more elucidating than the original post, and people usually quote just
enough for me to follow -- and honestly, I can follow the entire
thread without <those people's> posts anyway.
Gmail does have the nice auto-threading feature
though, its filtering
lets me put mail from all the mailing lists I subscribe to in a single
folder, and gmail lets me send replies using
inbox.org as the from
address.
The other nice thing is that Gmail hides the excessive quotes if
people don't *snip* them, and colors the relevant quoted text it does
show, so you can easily tell what's being reposted (or rehashed, or
dead-horsed).
--Darkwind