On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:25:27 -0700, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've got a couple complaints about using this list. I'm looking for > suggestions to improve my experience with it. > > a) I can't seem to get searches to find topics that I know are in the > lists. I don't have an example off the top of my head, but it would > save me a ton of time if I could do a good advanced search on these > archives, something like being able to specify multiple keywords in the > subject or in the body, that sort of thing. > > b) I get the list summary, but it isn't convenient to reply to the posts > like that. I can't reply on the list website itself and I don't want to > get the list posts as individual emails because the volume is too high. > > I find reply to posts from the list summary to be slow because you have > to manually edit the subject and if you don't get it right you've just > created a new topic. I think I wish that this list (and others) were a > regular usenet newsgroup, but I understand that would have some > drawbacks too. > > How is everyone else working with this list ? > > I'm beginning to think that I should configure evolution to sort my > emails into topics and get the whole list as individual posts. I could > then search them from within evolution and I could easily reply to > them. > > -- > Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Simple solution to a): get a gmail account for your lists, they are wonderful for being able to search within for strings and such. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but ever since I filled up a partition with list emails when using evolution (which apparrently hadn't 'evolved' enough at that point), I have gotten away from using email clients unless I really have to. Personal preference here. b) The other problem is the reason I subscribe individually to all lists and just discard lots of messages. With digests, you are reading every message, every time. Marc
