Hello, My name is Up2Late and I'm political e-mail pack-rat (I need e-mail list advice)

[Up2Late]

Hey everyone, I need some political/candidate/campaign e-mail list advice.

I must be on close to a dozen e-mail lists from candidates and political action organizations and, as I said, I'm sort of a e-mail pack-rat.

Basically, I get 30 to 40 e-mail messages every month, from Al Gore, John Kerry, Ned Lamont, Greg Palast, TrueMajority, People For the American Way, Working Assets, Mark Fiore, MoveOn.org, etc., and every month I tell myself that I'm going to read them, but almost never do.

I don't really want to delete them, but I probably should because they are cluttering up my e-mail box and making it hard to find more important e-mail.

So, anyone else dealing with this type of situation?

If so, do you have any "rules" you have set for yourself (or your e-mail box)?

Looking for a little advice here, but remember, be gentle because, even though I can admit I'm a pack-rat, I am still a pack-rat and feeling a bit overwhelmed right now.

[NMDemDist2]

1. make folders for all the candidates and one for "Organizations"

drag em off into there and read them at your leisure

:hi:

[Up2Late]

6. Hey, I like that idea!

I hate it when the best idea is first though, I think it might intimidate others with more good ideas, but who knows. :shrug:

[SharonAnn]

7. And set up a "rule" for your email client to automatically file them there when received.

That way you don't even have to actually move them.

When I went on a long trip last year, I unsubscribed from 20-30 email lists and I haven't re-subscribed to any of them. I found I didn't miss them.

[Fresh_Start]

2. unsubscribe

then you won't need to feel guilty about deleting them or leaving them unread

[wakeme2008]

3. Would help if you named your email program

Some have rules engines that will take all email from an address and move it to a folder without you doing anything.

[welshTerrier2]

4. yup and also ...

it's a good idea to have more than one email address ...

keep a personal one for important stuff (friends, family, work or whatever) and a separate one for campaign stuff or registering on websites or for any other uses where you don't want to get all cluttered up with spam ...

[Up2Late]

5. I use Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5.0.12 most of the time...

...but not always. I've got about a half dozen email accounts and they are all cluttered, but for the main one, I mostly use Thunderbird.

[wakeme2008]

8. here some help

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t10139-thunderbird-email-quotrulesquot.html

http://askbobrankin.com/thunderbird_email_rules.html

:)

[Up2Late]

9. Thanks, I'll have to give some of that stuff a try.

I really hasn't noticed any "auto rules" features before, other than Thunderbird marking too many messages as spam. Truthfully, I'd never even heard of "auto rules" before.

Thanks for the tip.

[illinoisprogressive]

10. i don't get tons but, what i get, I decide which i will read and delete the rest.

[Honeycombe8]

11. I have a folder named "Political." And then there are sub-folders within that folder.

But I don't get nearly as many e-mails as you do. I asked to be removed from a lot of lists because I was getting so many, I couldn't really read them all.

[Up2Late]

12. kick n/t

:kick: