A new subscriber to the list wrote:
Steve, I have had your email for one day and I am already overwhelmed. Is there another way? While perhaps not meaning to, they brought up a wonderful (and often underutilized) technology that's incorporated into nearly every e-mail program: Filters. Many people have told me that the best thing to keep from being overwhelmed from e-mails (from me or otherwise - I usually get, on average, 250 e-mails a day) is to use your e-mail program's filtering capability. That way you can have all the posts on your PC, but not feel overwhelmed by them and peruse them at your leisure. Filtering can sometimes be complicated, but once it's set up it is very much worth it. There's a tutorial for Outlook here and also here (this one shows how to delete messages, but it has pictures), and there's one for Eudora here. If you're using Pegasus, a howto is here (again, how to delete spam, but it shows you the principles). As I hinted, this can be used to filter out your mailing lists so your generic "inbox" isn't overflowing. I literally have dozens of folders my e-mail is sorted into, with complicated handling - but it doesn't have to be that difficult. For example, the simplest way to sort out the Resource List posts is this:
Create a folder for the resource list.
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