[OT] Don't use google groups?

[Michael Diamond]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Michael Diamond <dimo414 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > To your reply-to-digest emails question, I might suggest continuing to
> > subscribe to the google groups digest, but *also* subscribing to the
> mailing
> > list proper, and then just marking all emails from mercurial as read, and
> > file them away.  That way you have them locally if you need them, but
> they
> > don't flood your inbox.  Personally, I don't find this mailing list too
> > noisy, but gmail, and presumably other mail clients, has a Mute function,
> > which doesn't bring email threads back to your inbox when new replies
> come
> > in, which is useful when there is a big discussion going on that I don't
> > care about.
> >
>
> Thanks, that's actually a really good idea! I hadn't thought of
> receiving BOTH digests and the actual emails. Indeed it's not possible
> using only one interface or the other. But using both, I can get
> actual emails from the real mailing list and digests from Google. I'll
> try it for at least a week or so to see how it works out for me.
>

If you wanted to get away from google groups, most mail providers,
including gmail, let you add +whatever to the end of your email address and
still receive those emails, so you could register
fritzophrenic+digest at gmail.com to receive digests, and
fritzophrenic at gmail.com to receive the proper emails.

Michael
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