Comments on: Death to NNTP!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:15:39 +0000

Even though I am no longer an MVP, I am still in the DL. Having all those emails has increased my stress over the past couple of weeks. I am afraid that some important messages from outside this DL are getting lost.

I would love to be able to see the 5% of interesting messages without wading through all the others. Maybe you should post your Azure idea in Connect.

By: What We’re Reading: May 7th 2010 | Brent Ozar - Too Much Information

What We’re Reading: May 7th 2010 | Brent Ozar - Too Much Information — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:07:26 +0000

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By: Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:20:09 +0000

In reply to Kathi Kellenberger.

i’ve heard that part of the advantage to the DL is that we will get more Blue Badge participation, which i think is wonderful. But why won’t MS eat their own dog food here and serve up a private Sharepoint portal for the MVP’s to use? i really think they are missing an opportunity to utilize their strongest advocates by getting them involved with some of their newer offerings.

but hey, that’s just me. i like shiny new things.

By: Kathi Kellenberger

Kathi Kellenberger — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:57:55 +0000

I would love to be able to see the 5% of interesting messages without wading through all the others. Maybe you should post your Azure idea in Connect.

By: Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:16:09 +0000

In reply to Karen Lopez.

yeah, i configured a rule in outlook, but i haven’t gotten around to the custom view yet. and i l-o-v-e the auto delete you have configured. i’ll look to configure that as well.

i still wish i could use a lot of the shiny tools available in Azure…or we could just move everything over to Google…

By: Karen Lopez

Karen Lopez — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:07:47 +0000

I’m there with ya on the mailing list only collaboration/community communications position.

What I do for these is set up Outlook rules to do move these mailing list messages to a folder that holds all the messages. Then I set up the view for that folder to optimize viewing by conversation/thread.

Finally, I set up an autoarchive to delete messages automatically, usually with a lower retention level that other folders.

It’s not quite the same as a newsgroup, but it sort of feels that way since the messages don’t remain in your inbox. They are all there, but tucked away in other folder.