On 9/18/07, Anthony wikimail@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