Tim and Maureen

Hi,
It is me Maureen, the lurker in Prince George B.C. I have been having an interesting time lurking and it has been the difference between doubting myself and unschooling to now feeling much more confident about our life choice. I still want to continue reading emails but I was away for a day and a half and I came home to 477 emails most from the group. How do I still get to be in touch but not have so much mail. Can someone help!!


smothering in email
maureen


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Tia Leschke

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
saftety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
leschke@...
> It is me Maureen, the lurker in Prince George B.C. I have been having an
interesting time lurking and it has been the difference between doubting
myself and unschooling to now feeling much more confident about our life
choice. I still want to continue reading emails but I was away for a day and
a half and I came home to 477 emails most from the group. How do I still get
to be in touch but not have so much mail. Can someone help!!

I just was away for several days. The last time, I came home to 879
messages! It took me days to catch up. This time I went to the website and
set my high-traffic lists to nomail. When I came back, I read the threads
that interested me on the web. What I found was that it's easier to skip
posts on the website because it's such a hassle to read there. I was caught
up in a day.
Tia

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In a message dated 03/25/2003 11:57:02 PM Central Standard Time,
leschke@... writes:


> I was away for a day and
> a half and I came home to 477 emails most from the group. How do I still
> get
> to be in touch but not have so much mail. Can someone help!!
>
>

Boy, can I relate! :-) This is such a wonderful list, and I don't want to
miss anything, but sometimes I have to pick and choose. I use the sort
feature on my server so that all of my messages are bunched together by their
subject line. Then I simply delete those, wholesale, that don't appear to
hold much interest for me. Most of the time I'll read the first message in a
thread to make sure that it really isn't something I want or need to follow.
When I'm really pressed for time, I have to get pretty ruthless with this,
knowing that I'm still missing some interesting conversation, but I figure
it's like being at a really great party -- I can't be a part of every
fascinating conversation that's going on!

Laura B.


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Fetteroll

on 3/26/03 12:37 AM, Tim and Maureen at tmthomas@... wrote:

> It is me Maureen, the lurker in Prince George B.C. I have been having an
> interesting time lurking and it has been the difference between doubting
> myself and unschooling to now feeling much more confident about our life
> choice. I still want to continue reading emails but I was away for a day and a
> half and I came home to 477 emails most from the group. How do I still get to
> be in touch but not have so much mail. Can someone help!!

Some people like the digest which puts 20 or so emails into one email.
They're easier to scan through to skip stuff but harder to reply to. You can
switch by sending an email to [email protected] If
want to switch back you send an email to
[email protected]

I like the thread/sort feature too. With Outlook Express it's under View.

Joyce