Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: All this mail!!

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

Marty writes:

> Dear fellow "listers",

> I'm putting out a plea here.  Is there any way we can reduce this 
> load of mail?  When I joined a few months ago, I got 3-5 pieces  
of > mail per day - 10 was a heavy day.  Yesterday, I got almost 40!  

> I'm getting overwhelmed with all this mail and am thinking of
> dropping off.  Yes, I know I can delete everything as it comes  
in, > but that's hard to do.  Maybe it's just a function of more  
members > and more interest and there's nothing to be done, but does  
anyone
> have any suggestions?

The most immediate medication for those suffering these kinds of
severe symptoms of information overload disease is to send email to  
listserv [at] uci.com (*not* cohousing-l) with a line in the body of the  
message which says

set cohousing-l mail digest

Then:
        your message is not sent back to you.New messages are not
        sent to you as they arrive, but are accumulated into digests 
        that are periodically sent to you.

Then you can delete them unread in big batches instead of one at a  
time!

Stuart Staniford-Chen.

(I'm afraid that ultimately the prognosis for this disease is  
hopeless though.  I'm on one list (firewalls) in which I switched to  
digest mode but I get 5 or 10 digests a day, each containing 20  
messages or so.)