The original problem

[Del K. Rykert]

Thank you John for sharing...  I leaned something ...

    Del

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pavlick" <jpavlick at idseng.com>
To: "NSRCA Discussion" <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:10 PM
Subject: The original problem


> Guys,
> I seem to remember the "problem" started when people were getting a lot of
> mail from the list and it was becoming a chore to sort through it. If you
> receive all of your mail into a common directory ("folder") this does
> happen. The way that we attempted to solve the problem actually created
> another one. Put another feather in Murphy's cap (like he needs it). The
> original problem wasn't so much the volume of mail or even the subject
> matter. Quite frankly it's not too hard to delete a message if you don't
> want to read it. The problem was trying to find messages from people who
> weren't on "the list". You know, the important stuff like how to re-grow
> hair and how to increase your - woops, let's not go there. What we needed
> was a way to sort mail, not necessarily a way to reduce the volume of mail
> on the list. What I did was simple. Anybody can do it. First, you need to
> create a new directory / folder where your NSRCA mail will go. I made this 
> a
> subdirectory under my Inbox "folder". If you're using Outlook for your
> Email, you can use the Organize tool available on your Tools menu when
> you're in the Inbox pane. You make a rule that tells Outlook to send any
> mail received from the discussion list into this directory / folder. Easy.
> When you receive mail, all mail addressed to your personal Email address
> goes into the same place it always does, but all of the mail addressed to
> the discussion list goes into this new directory. You don't need to have 
> an
> additional Email address (although that works fine too) if you use this
> method so anyone should be able to set it up quickly. When you want to 
> read
> your NSRCA mail, switch to that directory. Hope this helps. Oh yeah, I 
> vote
> for the "Old Way".
>
> John Pavlick
> http://www.idseng.com
>
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