Reading NewsGroups in Gmail
I subscribe to several newgroups via Yahoo and Google. Recently I decided that digest versions of certain newsgroups were not cutting it, so I changed my membership options to get individual emails… Can anyone guess where this is going?
My inbox was pretty much immediately flooded with emails. Of course, these are emails that I want to read… but not that I necessarily need to read right away.
The solution? Gmail makes it easy…
- Create a label for the group
- Create a filter to apply to the “To:” address of the group (since everyone sends email to the same address for it to be distributed to the group)
- In the filter: apply the label for the group, and have it Bypass the Inbox
Now all the email from your various newgroups will be delivered to the different tags, won’t clutter up your inbox, and is much easier to read than the digest format. This is especially true when people manage to use the same subject to continue the thread (for some reason, people like to change the subject line) since Gmail will group them all together for you.
