[pct-l] Having PCT-L email problems? - a remedy 'suggestion' using your browser...

[Mike Chapman]

Oh the power of G-mail,I love it.

On 1/21/11, Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also use gmail on my droid and never skip a beat.
> On Jan 21, 2011 9:35 AM, "Kevin Cook" <hikelite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That would work.
>>
>> I like using Gmail because it "threads" the email topics. This helps
>> minimize the "logjam" in the inbox. So far Gmail has not blocked the list
>> either. Maybe their admins are astute enough to recognize a listserv is
> not
>> spam. ;)
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:29 AM, <enyapjr at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Many have 'complained' (via posting to the list) about not receiving
> emails
>>> from the list...
>>> Seems the problem lies in not receiving list emails through certain
>>> providers, either email or ISPs...
>>>
>>> A suggestion - use the online 'archive' instead, and bookmark the current
>>> month in your browser...
>>> (This has appeared in various forms before on the list in the 'distant'
>>> past)
>>>
>>> First, go to <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l> to
>>> change your 'options'...
>>> Scroll down and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options"...
>>> Next page, enter your email address & password; click on "Log in"...
>>> Next page, scroll down to "Your Pct-L Subscription Options"...
>>> First 'option' is "Mail delivery" - click the "Disabled" button...
>>> Scroll down & click on "Submit My Changes"...
>>>
>>> Now go to the current list archives at <
>>> http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/>...
>>> Click on "January 2011: ... [Date]" - save/bookmark the page...
>>> If your browser is set to remember a few days 'history', posts that you
>>> have read online during that time frame should be shown as such...
>>>
>>> There are many 'pluses' to doing the above:
>>> No email 'inbox' logjam...
>>> If you get 'digest' emails, I find it easier & faster using the current
>>> month archive instead...
>>> Not interested in a certain 'subject' or 'thread'? - don't open or read
>>> it...
>>> Not interested in what a certain 'author' has to say? - don't open or
> read
>>> it...
>>> You are STILL a list member and can still POST to the list - just do a
>>> little 'copy & paste' when replying to a subject in your email to "pct-l
> at
>>> backcountry dot net"...
>>>
>>> I've found that it is much more convenient (for me) to get my pct-l (&
> PCT)
>>> addiction 'fix' that way! ;-)
>>>
>>> Happy trails!!!
>>> Jim (PITA)
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