From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: (OT) How to follow a mailing list with very high activity (like this one here)? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:30:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87tx9snfbt.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoHG-00045U-FP for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:31:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoH8-0007BE-RZ for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:31:02 -0400 Received: from mail-db3lp0083.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([213.199.154.83]:3191 helo=emea01-db3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaoH8-0007AG-Li for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:30:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (M.'s message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:28:44 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: M Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist On Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014 at 20:28, M wrote: > This is off-topic, but I hope that someone can give me some good advice: Not at all off-topic. > During the last years, I'be become a real org-mode fan and I want to stay > current and be active in the great org-mode community. > I've subscribed to the orgmode mailinglist about 1,5 years ago and so I have >>17.500 mails in my inbox. There's definitely no need to keep all org emails as they are archived on gmane. Streamline your inbox! > You really have to be organized very well to deal with so much information! > Is there a tutorial somewhere for good approaches, how to participate in > such a list (without doing it as a full time job)? As others have said: gnus with scoring (adaptive or manual) and by judicious use of killing threads that are not of interest to you. Given the broad nature of org's capabilities, many thread topics may not be relevant to you at any given time. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org release_8.2.5h-898-g11f8ef