Category: Geeks r Us
In the past 6 months, I have signed up for more than a few email lists. Thankfully, I'm the kind of girl that has no problem skimming through and deleting some of the messages where the subject line doesn't grab me.
A couple days ago, I was wishing I could hear the subject first. I already have my messages ordered asending and by subject.
So, I started playing around in OE6 and looky there! There is a way to reorder the columns. Under v-view, c-columns; there I can add/subtract what I want shown, and I can customize how the columns appear.
Now, I have my subject first, then atachments, then who it is from and date. It makes my skimming so much faster!
I might consider organizing messages into folders, but that may more of a bother than it is worth. Lol, I'm afraid, I'd leave the individual folders for days.
I just thought I'd share this with y'all. There may be others that didn't know one could do this. *smile*
What surprises me is that mailing lists are still out there. Um? That's sooo 90s.
That's where the web option with Google Groups or the Facebook groups is nice, no loads of emails ... that's as old as usenet ... lol though to my mind usenet was better
Personally, I can't see myself ever joining facebook or any of those other social networking sites. It's just not for me. I do belong to a couple email lists, and while I do have mine already set up to let me hear subject first, it irritates me when people don't bother to change the subject lines and post new comments to an irrelevant subject line.
Hehehehe, you mean gwmicro booksense, or mobile speak list are on facebook? That is what a facebook group is? If so, learn something new everyday!
Lol, and I didn't know this stuff was around in the 90's!
what are e-mail lists and where can one join up for one? and how do they work?
There are email lists for just about any subject you can think of. The way they work is that whenever a member sends a message, everyone on the list gets that message, and when you reply to someone's message, everyone on the list reads that reply. In the past I have belonged to email lists for blind LG phone users, various lists for meeting new people, and most recently I belong to a few lists for discussing books. I just recently subscribed to a list for people using the BARD site for downloading books to learn about using the new NLS digital player and one called db-review for discussing books downloaded from BARD.
Smooth!