[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 05/25/2017 03:32 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017 21:07:05 -0500, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I'm a retard and my brain is slow, but how the f**k do you keep up
>> with all these emails and have any time for programming, cooking,
>> working, hiking, possibly a relationship with opposite sex?
>>
> 
> Well, for one thing, skip the emails and use the GMane News server
> interface to the mail list instead!
> This particular list is in gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.social for
> example.
> 
> Then you will get a threaded view and can easily navigate quickly
> between the various posts. You see immediately to which sub-branch of
> a discussion a response was made etc etc.
> And you do not clutter your inbox so you miss important real emails to
> you.

while i understand what you are saying, i always get a huge belly laugh when 
someone says anything about cluttering an inbox... that's just crazy when you 
have filters that can easily move new mail to its own folder for reading... each 
of the FPC related mailing lists comes into my thunderbird and is filtered to 
its own (sub)folder where the messages are read in threaded mode... it is faster 
and available to me even when i'm offline... plus i have a local copy of all the 
messages so i can search historically if desired...

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