From: Craig Moran <craig.m.moran.ruby@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T04:54:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodle Groups and My New Address

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:00:48 +0900, Gavri Fernandez
<gavri.fernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:48:31 +0900, Craig Moran
> <craig.m.moran.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It is possible that you misunderstood me.  After I Label something, I
> > Archive it so that it no longer exists in my Inbox.  If it is a
> > message I haven't read, it sits in my Inbox.  This can be considerable
> 
> The filter I've set labels and archives automatically. So at no point
> of time are there any ruby-talk mails in my Inbox.

I'm sure that I'm being misunderstood now.  From my first message on
this topic, I quote:

"I am using this Google email addy specifically for the Ruby ML and
nothing else."

You are advising me from the perspective of a GMail user that uses
their account for several different situations, this ML being only one
of them.  Others take note, because this advice is sound for anyone
using GMail for things in addition to this ML.
 
> > after a few days of not checking the mail.  Since I enjoy much of the
> > traffic on this ML, I let the messages stay in my Inbox to be read
> > instead of Auto-archiving them.  Maybe "downside" was the improper
> 
> It really doesn't make a difference if you auto-archive them. Try it
> and see. You can always click on the label links to get to see the
> labelled mails although they have been archived. And the interface
> provides visualisation of which conversations have been read and which
> haven't among these archived mails.

See my message quoted above.  You provide sound advice for others in
your situation.

Advice for anyone using GMail purely for this ML like myself (not
directed at Gavri ;^) ):  auto-archiving will add one more step in
that you will have to click on the archived folder to get to your
messages as opposed to them just being there in your Inbox when you
login.
 
> > word for me to use because I never intended it to mean that it was a
> > "problem" at all.  If anything, it just shows that I need to be more
> > diligent in keeping up with the ML.  Because of the very natural
> > taxonomy feature of GMail, I still maintain that GMail is much better
> > than any newsreader.
> 
> I guess you have not set the ruby-talk filter to autoarchive. Try it.
> You lose nothing but the clutter in your Inbox.

To those using their GMail for more than this ML, this is once again
sound advice.

> Regards,
> Gavri

Another upside to using GMail as I am is the fact that I am not
intermixing any of my other interests.  My GMail account is purely for
Ruby and nothing else.  If I happen to have several other interests
involving MLs (which I don't), I have made the choice to keep them
separate.  By keeping them separate, I also decrease the risk to
ruby-talk's ML that my email will be harvested from one of my other
interests.  Thus, I avoid compromising the integrity of the ruby-talk
ML.

At the risk of repeating myself, my favorite benefit is having one
central, personally moderated repository of everything I think is
great about Ruby.

Peace-
C