Any way to only receive emails for threads that I am participating in?
I am trying to participate in the discussion about PEP 467, but I'm still kind of getting used to the mailing list. It seems like I can either subscribe and get emails for all of the threads, or unsubscribe and not get any emails, making me unable to reply to the threads I want to reply to. The batched daily digest feature makes the emails more tolerable, but ideally, I would like to only get emails for a few specific subjects I care a lot about. I can probably set up some archiving or filtering on my end, but I am wondering if anyone has a way to only subscribe to certain threads, or any general suggestions for dealing with the mailing list. Also, I was unsubscribed for a while, when someone sent a message in the PEP 467 thread. Is there a way to reply to messages that were sent when I was not subscribed?
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Elias Zamaria <mikez302@gmail.com> wrote:
It seems like I can either subscribe and get emails for all of the threads, or unsubscribe and not get any emails, making me unable to reply to the threads I want to reply to. The batched daily digest feature makes the emails more tolerable, but ideally, I would like to only get emails for a few specific subjects I care a lot about.
Maybe gmane combined with a threaded newsreader (NNTP client) would be close enough?
On Mar 2, 2018, at 20:41, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe gmane combined with a threaded newsreader (NNTP client) would be close enough?
While I guzzle the firehose of python-dev from my inbox, Gmane+NNTP is how I read many other Python mailing lists, including python-ideas. It’s a great solution if you want to participate in just a few threads. I personally use Postbox for that, but there good free open source MUAs too, depending on your platform. My favorite on Linux is Claws Mail. Cheers, -Barry
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think for now, I'll just try to deal with it and maybe set up some filtering in Gmail. I'm not sure if it is worth changing my habits and getting over the learning curve of these tools just to deal with this one mailing list. On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Mar 2, 2018, at 20:41, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe gmane combined with a threaded newsreader (NNTP client) would be close enough?
While I guzzle the firehose of python-dev from my inbox, Gmane+NNTP is how I read many other Python mailing lists, including python-ideas. It’s a great solution if you want to participate in just a few threads. I personally use Postbox for that, but there good free open source MUAs too, depending on your platform. My favorite on Linux is Claws Mail.
Cheers, -Barry
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On 6 March 2018 at 04:03, Elias Zamaria <mikez302@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think for now, I'll just try to deal with it and maybe set up some filtering in Gmail. I'm not sure if it is worth changing my habits and getting over the learning curve of these tools just to deal with this one mailing list.
One useful feature in Gmail for getting the entire list out of your inbox is the "Filter messages like this" option in the per-message drop down (it prepopulates a new filter definition with the appropriate list headers). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On 2018-03-03, 02:15 GMT, Elias Zamaria wrote:
It seems like I can either subscribe and get emails for all of the threads, or unsubscribe and not get any emails, making me unable to reply to the threads I want to reply to.
Go to https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev in the last input box fill in your email, and click on [Unsubscribe or edit options]. On the next page fill-in your password (you get it every month in email), and on the settings page switch “Mail delivery” to “Disabled”. You will not get any message from the list, but you will be still subscribed, so you can post to the list. Then open your NNTP newsreader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader_(Usenet)) (you use one, right? It is the only sensible way how to deal with the large community lists) and subscribe to nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel . You will have all advantages of newsreader (killfile, easy ignoring whole threads at once) in the comfort of your computer, perhaps even in the offline state. If you don’t want to go all that length, just use email program which can kill threads (e.g., Thunderbird https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads ) Best, Matěj -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl@ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis
Matěj, thanks for the suggestion. I haven't used Usenet in over a decade. I may try using a Usenet reader if I feel like trying something new (actually very old, but kind of unfamiliar to me from being not fresh in my head), but for now, I'm going to use Gmail's filtering so I can prevent the python-dev messages from being mixed with the other stuff in my inbox. If that is somehow not good enough for me, after taking a few days or weeks to get used to it, then I will try other ways of dealing with it. On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> wrote:
On 2018-03-03, 02:15 GMT, Elias Zamaria wrote:
It seems like I can either subscribe and get emails for all of the threads, or unsubscribe and not get any emails, making me unable to reply to the threads I want to reply to.
Go to https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev in the last input box fill in your email, and click on [Unsubscribe or edit options]. On the next page fill-in your password (you get it every month in email), and on the settings page switch “Mail delivery” to “Disabled”.
You will not get any message from the list, but you will be still subscribed, so you can post to the list.
Then open your NNTP newsreader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader_(Usenet)) (you use one, right? It is the only sensible way how to deal with the large community lists) and subscribe to nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel . You will have all advantages of newsreader (killfile, easy ignoring whole threads at once) in the comfort of your computer, perhaps even in the offline state.
If you don’t want to go all that length, just use email program which can kill threads (e.g., Thunderbird https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads )
Best,
Matěj -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl@ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis
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