I, too, use gmail. Fortunately, my rollingball ISP allows me to set up automatic relaying of all mail to any other email address. This allows me to keep the rollingball address, which is my official handle, and yet to receive ALL of my mail at my new, preferred gmail address. Gmail organizes all my pianotech mail beautifully, and enables search very easily. For example, all messages with the same subject are automatically stacked together so you can see all contributors in one screen, along with the first line of each response. And the contributors are color-coded to you can e.g. easily spot all Del's responses. Truly a thing of beauty. And it's free. Also, it generously allows me to send mail (such as this one) from gmail, with the send-from address of my choice, so I still appear to the world as jkanter@rollingball. So much better than Outlook or Outlook Express. Jason <div>On 1/29/07, paul bruesch <<a href="mailto:tunergeek@gmail.com">tunergeek@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I just recently joined this list and started out getting periodic digest emails. I found that to be a very unfriendly way to read this forum, so I started just refreshing the monthly archive every few hours that I'm at home, but didn't care much for that either. Then I signed up for a gmail account (email by Google). Related threads get joined into one entry in my inbox, making it far simpler to plow thru a pile of posts. Then, if I want to save something for later, I can put a tag on it ( e.g. "Regulating", or "Temperament")... it's similar to folders, except I can assign multiple tags to a single email. Then I can move it to archive so it's out of my inbox.  Most internet users are familiar with Google as a search engine, so it should be no surprise that Gmail archive is search-enabled, too. If it wasn't such a pain to "move" to a different email address, I'd be moving my regular personal email to Gmail as well. As it is, I do plan to start that process in the not too distant future, though I anticipate it'll take a while... Paul<div> <div>On 1/27/07, John M. Formsma <<a href="mailto:john@formsmapiano.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> john@formsmapiano.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How do you guys group the info that comes through the list so it's relevant to your individual needs?  How do you make it like your own personal "Tips & Tricks" that you can review at any time? I've been saving individual emails in threads, but they get buried quickly if I save a number of posts. And I don't take time to sift through them when I have 200+ emails that aren't arranged in any particular order. Possibilities: 1. Save them in a document and bookmark them by having a "Table of Contents" thing with hyperlinks to the relevant text. 2. Hyperlink to the archives and name the link something like "Aluminum rail, stripped." If I use hyperlinks to the archives (which is what I'd like to do), will the archives' info always retain that info at the same place? For example, if I direct the hyperlink to <a href="http://www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info</a>, will that "relevant-info" always be stored there, or do things get renamed after a number of years? Thanks in advance, JF </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div> -- =cell 425 830 1561=