[Python-Dev] Any way to only receive emails for threads that I am participating in?

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2018-03-03, 02:15 GMT, Elias Zamaria wrote:
> It seems like I can either subscribe and get emails for all of 
> the threads, or unsubscribe and not get any emails, making me 
> unable to reply to the threads I want to reply to.

Go to https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev in the 
last input box fill in your email, and click on [Unsubscribe or 
edit options]. On the next page fill-in your password (you get 
it every month in email), and on the settings page switch “Mail 
delivery” to “Disabled”.

You will not get any message from the list, but you will be 
still subscribed, so you can post to the list.

Then open your NNTP newsreader 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader_(Usenet)) (you use 
one, right? It is the only sensible way how to deal with the 
large community lists) and subscribe to 
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel . You will have 
all advantages of newsreader (killfile, easy ignoring whole 
threads at once) in the comfort of your computer, perhaps even 
in the offline state.

If you don’t want to go all that length, just use email program 
which can kill threads (e.g., Thunderbird 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ignore-threads )

Best,

Matěj
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