Overwhelmed by emails

Ruby
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This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have.
Does
someone, by any chance, know of email software with filtering (bayesian,
user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the interesting stuff? Kind of
like
reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

Daniel

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Hi –

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have. Does
someone, by any chance, know of email software with filtering (bayesian,
user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the interesting stuff? Kind of like
reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

I guess you could use a bayesian spam filter but just teach it
backwards :slight_smile:

David

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Daniel DeLorme wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have.
Does someone, by any chance, know of email software with filtering
(bayesian, user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the interesting
stuff? Kind of like reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a
mass of legit messages.

Hrm… ruby-talk has web mirrors at
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml and
http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4. Perhaps you could work up a system
using http://www.trynt.com/trynt-google-pagerank-api/ or something, but
a few random guesses on my part had it showing up 0 for everything…

Devin

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Daniel DeLorme wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have.
Does
someone, by any chance, know of email software with filtering (bayesian,
user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the interesting stuff? Kind of
like
reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

Daniel

Why you need the emails at all???

Read from the website!!!

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Daniel DeLorme wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I
have. Does someone, by any chance, know of email software with
filtering (bayesian, user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the
interesting stuff? Kind of like reverse spam: find the most
interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

Daniel

I recommend the two-second rule – look at the message for 2 seconds,
then take action on it or delete it.

–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.

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If you use Mozilla, simply sort the subjects, then look at the ones you
want. Then use ^A to select all of the emails then delete them. This
can be done quite quickly.

Tom R.

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On 2006-11-30, Daniel DeLorme [email protected] wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have. Does
someone, by any chance, know of email software with filtering (bayesian,
user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the interesting stuff? Kind of like
reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

Daniel

sylpheed or sylpeed-claws
(sylpheed - Google Search)
provides (key-word or regex) filters with associated actions, so you can
use it to, for example, put all messages with ruby.*java|java.*ruby in
the subject line in your ruby-java folder, and so on. Works well for me
for my mailing list emails. (And each folder is implemented as a
directory in the filesystem, so it’s also easy to grep/etc. emails from
the command line.)

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On Nov 29, 2006, at 1744 , Daniel DeLorme wrote:

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I
have. Does someone, by any chance, know of email software with
filtering (bayesian, user-based, etc) to help you ferret out the
interesting stuff? Kind of like reverse spam: find the most
interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

I’ve been working on it for IMAPCleanse, but I haven’t made it
accurate yet. You may be interested in imap_flag, though. It lets
you track response to email addresses you like to read.

–
Eric H. - [email protected] - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!

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On Nov 29, 2006, at 1933 , Roseanne Z. wrote:

messages.

Daniel

Why you need the emails at all???

Read from the website!!!

I can’t read the website when I’m not attached to the internet.

A website will gobble up even more of my precious time because I have
to wait for messages to load. No fun.

–
Eric H. - [email protected] - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!

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On 11/30/06, Daniel DeLorme [email protected] wrote:
[snip]

help you ferret out the interesting stuff? Kind of like
reverse spam: find the most interesting out of a mass of legit messages.

Interesting challenge… a ruby-talk ranking system…

+10 matz
+10 ts
…

  • 10 neoneye
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Simon S. wrote:

  • 10 neoneye
    -20 best GUI for Ruby
    -50 best editor for Ruby

–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006, Roseanne Z. wrote:

Why you need the emails at all???

Read from the website!!!

Some people prefer to use mailing lists natively, instead of through
(occasionally broken) forum gateways.

Ben