Practical question: how do you track your threads when subscribing to a lot of groups and posting to some groups?

Practical question: how do you track your threads when subscribing to a lot of groups and posting to some groups?

[Georges Ko]

    Hi,

    Let's say that you subscribed to a lot of groups (mail, news,
mailing lists, ...) and post to some of them: how do you track the
threads you started when all your threads are in different groups?

    - Move the groups on the top of your list? 
    - Put them in some topic called "Wait feedback"
    - Write on some Post-It or in some file?
    - Some elisp magic?
    - ...

    Georges
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 Georges Ko                               gko@gko.net              2003-06-06
                                         Jour 5 de la semaine 23 de l'an 2003

Re: Practical question: how do you track your threads when

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:25:20 +0800, Georges Ko <gko@gko.net> said:

Georges> Let's say that you subscribed to a lot of groups (mail, news,
Georges> mailing lists, ...) and post to some of them: how do you track the
Georges> threads you started when all your threads are in different groups?

Georges> - Move the groups on the top of your list? 
Georges> - Put them in some topic called "Wait feedback"
Georges> - Write on some Post-It or in some file?
Georges> - Some elisp magic?
Georges> - ...

Well, rule one: mark up responses to your posts by sorting by
scoring.  Do this by adding something like the following to your
~/News/all.SCORE file:

(("references"
 ("<\\(x7\\|sd\\)[a-z0-9_]+\\.fsf\\(_-_\\)?@\\(my\\.host\\.domainname\\.com\\)>" 20000 nil r)))

which scores up posts responding to me (from the machine
my.host.domainname.com) by 20000.

Within the group buffer, however, I don't do sorting.  I use topics to
put stuff into groups and I have a pretty good feel about which I need
to keep on top of...

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