Re: [asa] Alternative to the Flood of Emails

George Cooper wrote:

> Often we receive duplicate emails for each one.

When you reply to someone's note, the reply should only go to
asa@calvin... and not directly to the sender or to the people copied on
the original note. This severely reduces the number of duplicates you
will receive. If everyone did this it would also make the threading of
messages come out in strict date and time sequence, which I at least
prefer. In my email client I either manually blank out some of the
reply addresses or manually enter the asa nickname to accomplish this.

Sometimes the problem with Threads being broken is that people change
the subject line slightly. Unless I really want to start a new topic I
never change the subject line.

> That's a smart move. Is there a simple procedure for this someone
> reading this will be willing to explain?

This depends upon the email client you use but it probably is more or
less the same in many clients. In Thunderbird which I use, the Tools
pulldown has an entry called Message Filters. I have two filters:

1. Looks for Subject line containing "asa" and has an action set to move
the message to the asa folder.

2. Looks for From address matching "abcdef" and has an action set to
move the message to the trash folder. This and others like it
eliminates mail from individuals who might otherwise regularly waste my
time.

Note actual filters do not contain quotes.

For parts of the year I only have dial up access, thus an online forum
would not work well as I pay per hour of connect time.

Dave W (CSCA member)

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Received on Tue Dec 11 16:04:10 2007