{"id":554,"date":"2006-07-05T06:41:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/440e8f6043a534b3808010bfe1d8ce74"},"modified":"2006-07-05T06:41:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:41:56","slug":"email-mailing-lists-must-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Email mailing lists must do better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of email, and about once a quarter I sit down and go through my email, archiving the stuff I no longer need (I haven't thrown away an email in 20 years) and deleting everything else. I also take the opportunity to sort out my auto-filing rules. Every email from a known source goes into an appropriate folder, anything else gets lumped into a folder so that I can check its content and move it to the Spam reporting folder, delete it, or manually move it into the right place. If I've got a new client, or subscribed to some new mailing lists then I'll add them to the rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=sBKLur\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=sBKLur\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=179\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of email, and about once a quarter I sit down and go through my email, archiving the stuff I no longer need (I haven&#8217;t thrown away an email in 20 years) and deleting everything else. I also take the opportunity to sort out my auto-filing rules. Every email from a known source goes into an appropriate folder, anything else gets lumped into a folder so that I can check its content and move it to the Spam reporting folder, delete it, or manually move it into the right place. If I&#8217;ve got a new client, or subscribed to some new mailing lists then I&#8217;ll add them to the rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=sBKLur\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=sBKLur\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=179\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}