How to apply filters to posts

[Mark Lawrence]

On 14/06/18 17:23, T Berger wrote:
> 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
> 

Please no, not the misery of people replying to daily digests.  As I've 
said previously and as reinforced by Rhodri James above, point 
Thunderbird or similar at news.gmane.org and read and reply to 
everything to your hearts content without bothering your own inbox. 
Simples :)

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Mark Lawrence