How to apply filters to posts

[T Berger]

On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 11:26:00 AM UTC-4, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 14/06/18 16:00, T Berger wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 8:02:44 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > 
> >> They're connected. "Subscribe to the list" makes you a member of the
> >> mailing list (and thus you will start receiving posts), which also
> >> entitles you to send to the list. Sending email to that address will
> >> send it to the list. So what you're seeing is not options, but steps -
> >> first you subscribe, then you send email.
> > 
> > OK. And can you tell me how to apply filters so that only replies to my emails are included. I subscribed to the list a couple of weeks ago and then had to unsubscribe because I was getting emails on every posted topic.
> 
> That's exactly how mailing lists work: you get everything.  Any 
> filtering has to be done at your end in your mail program.  Personally I 
> use Thunderbird, get it to sort messages into threads (sequences of 
> conversation, in effect) and only read the threads that seem interesting.
> 
> -- 
> Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd

Thanks, Rhodri. One more question. What is a daily digest? I'm wondering whether to choose that option.

Tamara