Subject: A question about folders?

From: Dan and Tina <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:46:02 -0400

]Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have pine separate out mail such
that if you subscribe to several lists, they can be sorted into separate
folders?  I know this already happens with news groups, but I was
wondering if it can be done with email.
thaqnks.

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From: Bruno Boettcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 10:32:45 +0200 (MET DST)

> wondering if it can be done with email.

use deliver or procmail. If You only want to sort out mailing lists i
recommend deliver it requires only shell programming skills...

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:43:38 -0400

> wondering if it can be done with email.

To the Fellow Old-Timers on this group:  Sigh.  We really do need some
way of handling the questions that keep coming up over and over and
over and over and over again from new people.

To Dan and Tina:  No, Pine will not do what you want, but other
techniques will.  If you have a World Wide Web browser, browse my home
page and follow the link to Nancy McGough's pages, where she has a lot
of useful and informative material on mail filtering.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:38:29 -0700

> over and over and over again from new people.

We are now posting the "top 10" Pine FAQs monthly.  Do you think it
would help to post it more often?  Are there any other changes that
would make it more useful? 

--DLM

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Oct 1996 05:03:38 -0400

> would make it more useful? 

YES! I'd recommend following the lead of some other high-traffic
groups I read often (e.g. comp.lang.perl.misc and several
comp.infosystems.www... groups).  Post a relatively short document
daily (yes, daily) with the Top-10 FAQs and pointers to more
information (and a prominent request to check those sources first
before posting to the group).

Realistically, the "problem posts" don't come from people who've been
reading the group for a few weeks (and are therefore likely to have
seen a once-a-month posting).  They come from people who haven't read
the newsgroup at all.

If the post is given a "supercedes" header, no one will ever see more
than one copy of the FAQ, but it will _always_ be there in the
newsgroup.  Anyone who feels that daily posting of a FAQ list is
"wasting net bandwidth" should consider that if such a posting
squelches only two queries per day, it has already paid for its
passage.

-Dean
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:05:24 -0400

> would make it more useful? 

    My service provider has been having news hiccups lately, so I don't
recall even having seen such a "top 10" FAQs.  (There could be various
posts I have missed.) I think it is a very good idea.  As for its
contents or format I cannot say, not having seen it, but I would
suggest that in addition to posting it at least monthly, posting a
pointer to it every two weeks (if not every week) at least would be a
good idea, too.  A lot of newcomers could get on comp.mail.pine just
after the most recent posting, not know about it, and wind up asking
the same old questions all over again.  (Of course, their questions are
legitimate quests for useful information.)  A brief and judiciously
worded notice, with a URL, posted on a regular basis might give new
people occasion to check a FAQ first.