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  • From: Lisa Rollens <rollens@fidnet.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Lawrence please fix this !@*^!
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 09:42:02 -0500

Thanks, Toby!!!!!!!!

Lisa


On Jun 2, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Toby Hemenway wrote:

> I manage the emails from this list by having them all sent to a folder (on
> a Mac, a mailbox) named iBiblio list. I recommend doing this, and all email
> apps have a way to do it. Here's how to do it on a Mac in its native "Mail"
> program. Mac Mail has "rules" that will automatically deal with stuff like
> this.
>
> First I created a mail folder called "iBiblio list" that the mail will go
> to automatically.
>
> Then go to Mail preferences, and click on "rules." In that menu, in
> "description," give the rule a name, like "iBiblio list".
>
> Then, set the next line to "if ANY of the following conditions are met"
>
> Set the next line to "Any recipient" "contains"
> "permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org"
>
> Just to be safe I then clicked the "plus" sign next to that line and added
> "Subject" "contains" "[permaculture]" That last word needs to be in
> brackets, since that's how all the subjects in this list appear for me.
> That gets all the mail from this list too, since occasionally the email
> address alone, above, doesn't show up.
>
> Then on the next line, which says "perform the following actions," set it
> up for "move message" to mailbox "iBiblio list" (the last is a menu
> selection of all your mailboxes)
>
> That way, when 258 emails show up, they aren't mixed in with my inbox mail,
> and I can mass delete them all. And I don't care if people get way OT or
> write about things I don't care about; the mail is in a separate folder
> rather than in my inbox and I can ignore them till I feel like checking
> them.
>
> If you are checking email on a phone, there are ways to batch delete on
> phones, too. Just google it as a question about your phone. You don't have
> to open each one and delete it. Learn your machine; you are not the first
> person to get unwanted emails, and the designers have dealt with it. The
> answers are out there.
>
> Toby
> http://patternliteracy.com
>





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