[pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 11:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2010, Piscium wrote:
> >----- Original Message ----
> >
> >> From: Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>
> >> To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de
> >> Sent: Mon, 7 June, 2010 12:20:44
> >> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound
> >> Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control
> >
> >As many of the developer are
> >
> >> subscribed to 40+ mailing lists, reading
> >
> >the messages and separating out what
> >
> >> you are interested in, verses what
> >
> >is irrelevent to you is often tricky.
> >
> >--------------------------
> >Thanks for the explanation. I am currently subscribed to 8 lists on this
> > email account, much less than the 40+ you mention. Yet I am a bit weary
> > of setting up an email client and downloading to my PC all these emails,
> > as often I only read the headers.
> >
> >I am very happy with Yahoo with respect to reading emails, and I have set
> > up rules so that emails are routed on arrival to different folders
> > according to the list they came from. The problem is that Yahoo, as seen,
> > is not suitable for bottom posting because it messes up indenting.
> > Moreover there is no way to specify that you want a line break at 72
> > characters, for example.
> >
> >I have an account at Hotmail and it is much worse than Yahoo with respect
> > to plain text emails. So my question is if there is a good email website
> > for this purpose. Is gmail any good?
> 
> I use gmail, but not as a webmail service, I pop it with fetchmail, which 
> hands it off to procmail, procmail runs it through Spamassassin, puts the 
> spam in /dev/null and the survivors in /var/spool/mail/$user.  Kmail gets it 
> from there and sorts to the mailiing list folders, about 39 ATM.
> 
I like gmail's own filters for prior sorting (I then grab through IMAP,
since POP can only grab from the inbox). Just another option to
consider.