[WBEL-users] Google Alert - "beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users"

[psychoelmo]

with the giga-wars in the free email business, i'd suggest picking up
a gmail account for mailing lists, and only them (there's plenty of
sites offering invites w/o a catch). a gig of storage, message
threading, and easy searches, can't really beat it for list mail. the
ads? hardly notice them. most threads are longer than the first
screen, and the ads (text only) are only "above the fold".

i find it a great place to stash high-volume lists like debian's.
their spam filters aren't bad, they miss some though. they'll improve
over time, i suppose. most of the spam is actually sent to a list, not
to my address itself. i also like that i can look and google through
old list mails at home or at work. a heck of a lot easier than digging
through the actual list archive itself, especially if you're looking
for something but dont remember exactly which list it was in. but i
dread the time i have to go back and clean out old mail to make room
for more. they haven't implemented an easy way to delete quantities of
mail yet. (got a few months to go before i run out of space though :)