I wonder if we could benefit from some hints/suggestions on how to make list
management easier from the various experts out there?  I too found getting
hundreds of error messages a day frustrating (the worst was leaving town for
a week and returning to find over 2000 messages in my box) until I developed
a strategy that works for me.  I suspect other listowners have developed
other ways of dealing with them and I'd like to here them.  I have separate
accounts for my list.  My owner's account (where the error messages go is
NOT subscribed to the list).  My regular email account is subscribed to the
list so I get list messages there and all the error messages go to a
separate account (on VM).  I can log onto my VM account and block delete all
of the messages.  Then I page through the headers and read selectively to
see if I need to drop a subscription and to find any messages from
subscribers that were sent to that account.  I can get rid of 200 messages
in 5 minutes this way and I only need to look at one demon.co.uk message,
not all 50+.
 
With a single account, the same effect could probably be created by using
filters to direct mail into different boxes (the commercial version of
Eudora can do this, for instance).
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David L. Carlson                                   ARCH-L Listowner
Anthropology Department                  Phone: (409) 845-4044
Texas A&M University                   Telefax: (409) 845-4070
College Station, TX  77843-4352       Internet: [log in to unmask]