[EL] a request re: list procedures/habits

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Doug Hess <douglasrhess at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (I actually don't know how non-digest subscribers keep up with all the email
> they must get. Maybe what I should do involves some creative use of gmail
> filters?)

Yes, GMail's conversation-threading and filtering is essential for
anyone that receives a lot of email.

You can set up a filter exceedingly easily: by going to the top of any
election-law email in GMail, look to the far right for a small
down-pointing arrow, click on it and select "filter messages like
this".  It will set a filter parameter of:

list:"law-election.department-lists.uci.edu"

You can then have these emails skip the inbox and be filtered into a
label (like "election law").

With conversation threading and GMai's smart display, it will show all
the emails that have similar subjects as part of a single
"conversation"... and it will not display email text that you've
already seen further up the thread in down-stream emails in that
conversation.

best, Joe

-- 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
https://josephhall.org/