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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:58:33 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: For Peter: Isn't this hopelessly out of date ?

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> You keep mentioning that you still run NS 2.02
> -- as your main browser (?), or just for mail ?

Just for email. My browser is Mozilla.

Netscape 2.02 allows you to sort by threads rather than dates, which is
very handy and which is something that Polarbar, MR/2 and PM Mail can't
do (afaik). This is the _only_ reason I didn't switch to any of these
more-capable mail programs.

Netscape's filtering isn't very strong but it does most of what I need.
I filter mail lists on Reply-To or X-BeenThere, then I filter out my
junk mail courtesy of Junk Spy, then finally I filter out my own domains
(such as @peterskye.com) which leaves "everything else" in the Inbox.

My other filtering trick is to put a two-digit number in front of each
folder name. Since the folders are displayed in sequence, my "most
important" folders are at the top of the list. For example:

00-Inbox-Personal
01-Inbox-Family
02-Inbox-Friends
05-Inbox-Financial
07-Inbox-Legal
08-Inbox-SCOUG
...
90-Inbox-JunkMail
etc.

I don't know if Mozilla/Thunderbird has more robust filtering than
Netscape 2.02 and I don't know if they allow sorting by thread instead
of date the way that Netscape 2.02 does. Some day somebody will tell me
and then I'll know if I can switch to one of them.

- Peter

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