----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles T. Meyer, M.D. 
To: Parkinson's Information Exchange 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:39 AM
Subject: HELP WITH MAIL


HELP WITH MAIL VOLUME 
Below is the response to a FAQ about List Mail volume .  I will repost 
this at intervals to asssist new members  who are struggling with this 
issue. If anyone has any additions or corrections please write to me off 
list and I will make the necessary  changes.  It would be of help if 
some of you can make up other sets of instructions for other mail 
programs. 

Q.  The PARKINSN List overwhelms my e-mail box so that other mail 
gets 
lost in the large number of list posts.  What can I do short of leaving 
the list to manage the volume of mail that I get and be able to read it 
at my leisure? 

A.  The PARKINSN list has over 1800 subscribers (at the time of this 
revision). Even though many of our members choose not to actively 
contribute this large membership results in hundreds of contributions 
per week.  Since we want to make the list serve the varying needs of as 
large a percentage of the PD community as possible and to have fun 
there 
will inevitably be large numbers of posts that you will find that you 
don't have time for or are not interested in.  You will find specific 
subjects or  people whose posts you want to read and those that you 
would just as soon skip. 
What follows is a list of suggestions of ways to approach the list 
volume and following this are further FAQ's describing each method in 
more detail. All rely on a heavy but hopefully selective finger on the 
delete key. 

1.  Allow list messages to mix with other mail.  This requires a fair 
amount of time and almost daily review of email.  It can also work if 
you don't use e-mail for anything else.  But, if you let messages build 
up in your mailbox a few days you may find yourself losing your non-list 
mail in the large volume that the list generates. 

2. If you have more than one e-mail address you can put all 
PARKINSN 
related material in one address and download it as a separate logged-in 
individual.  This requires one to think ahead and download from the 
address only when you are logged on for PD. 

3. Use the DIGEST function incorporated into the list.  This takes care 
of the problem but when it bunches all the correspondence from the day 
into one or two long messages it makes it harder to read and harder to 
delete from since you have to delete all or none**.  It also becomes 
less spontaneous since there may be as long as 24 hours between 
Digests. 

4. (RECOMMENDED) Create a separate mailbox within you own 
computer just 
for list mail. Each mail program is different but most have this 
ability.  This separates list and non-list mail using filters from list 
mail. Then one can go through all the list mail at your leisure, 
allowing it to build up for a few days or responding immediately. I use 
netscape so I will describe how to accomplish #4 with that e-mail 
program.  If you wish info as to other programs you can ask on the list 
and hopefully they will be incorporated in this FAQ. 

Instructions for NETSCAPE 
1. Open Communicator 
2. Pull-down Menu click Communicator then Messenger (Or cntl+2) 
3. Pull down EDIT then choose MESSAGE FILTERS. 
4. A Message box Entitled Message filters will open Click NEW 
5. A Message box will open entitled FILTER RULES 
6. Fill in filter name PARKINSN 
7. (Click) MATCH ALL OF THE FOLLOWING the (select) TO of 
the message 
(select) CONTAINS PARKINSN (type in with exact spelling) then 
(select) 
MOVE TO  FOLDER (click) New folder. 
8. A box comes up "new folder". (Type) name: PARKINSN Create as 
Subfolder of (Click) INBOX (Click) OK. (click) OK. (Click) OK. 
9. That should do it. 

For Outlook express You must first create the folders to accept your 
incoming e-mail messages. In my case I created one called New PD 
Messages and another one called Non-PD messages. 

Then do the following: Open the "Tools" menu. Choose "Rules 
Wizard..." 
Choose "New". Click on "Check messages when they arrive." Click on 
"Next." Click on the little box corresponding to "from people or 
distribution list." In the lower window insert "Parkinsn". Click on 
"Next". Click on the little box corresponding to "move it to the 
specified folder." In the lower window insert "New PD Messages". Click 
on "Next". Click on the little box correstponding to  "except if the 
subject contains specific words." In the lower window type in 
"Non-PD". 
Click on "Next". Label this rule name New Parkinsn Messages or 
whatever 
you desire. Make sure to checkmark the little box to turn on the rule. 
Click on "Finish." To place your Non-PD messages in a different folder 
repeat the above steps but make sure you specify that your subject must 
contain Non-PD. 

Contributed by Teresa V. Bohuszewicz ** 

Gordon Fercho contributes the 
following regarding this: Select the message you want to delete;  then 
depress the delete key on the keyboard and it will disappear. When you 
close the digest processor message it asks you if you want to save the 
changes.  Click on SAVE and that's it.  You'll have retained only those 
messages you did not select and delete. Good luck 

Thanks also to Ron Vetter 

Charlie 

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Charles T. Meyer,  M.D. 
Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin 
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