On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:38 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 22:50 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> Any suggestions? > > You can subscribe, then unsubscribe later on. > > Or, instead of subscribing to the mailing lists, you could subscribe to > the gmane newsgroup portal to these mailing lists. When you use usenet > instead of mail, your client doesn't have to download all the messages, > it can fetch just a *list* of message headers as you browse through a > group. You'll only download a message body when you pick a message from > the list. What your client actually does is down to configuration, you > can configure it like a POP3 mail client, and make it drag in all > messages. > > Usenet (newsgroup) clients tend to have better features for handling > lots of messages, too. Easy way to ignore whole threads, easy ways to > watch specific threads (perhaps highlighting them, or automatically > fetching those messages while just listing the others), easy ways to > ignore specific posters, etc. > > See: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general > > That's just two suggestions for your question. There's probably other > ways to solve it, too. > Thank you all for the suggestions. I ended up using Gmane in the end. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
