[justinlardinois]

> Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast, the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring, invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue, cooking scales, male-to-male audio cables, MIDI cables, 120V twist lock connectors, funnels, and hairdryers.

I can only imagine the volume of email that entails; how do people deal with it? I would guess that these days the mailing lists are through Google Groups so you can at least turn off emails and use the list as a forum, but I doubt most would know or bother to do that and let themselves drown in email.

[doctorwho42]

Sort all from: EC-Discuss into folder: EC-Discuss

... Try to sort through it when you are bored... Realize you don't get anything out of it anymore -> Un-Subscribe to EC-Discuss email list.

Clarification: EC-Discuss = East Campus (of MIT) discussion email list... it is known for this mass email of random nature.

[bannus]

Gmail makes it very easy (via the "Filter messages like these") to filter all messages from a mailing list. You can apply a label and skip the inbox so you just browse the list when you need to.

[Kadin]

This is exactly what filters are for and why every decent MUA has them. You just filter each list to a folder, or all the lists into a folder, and read them there rather than in your inbox.

[mayneack]

most are mailman or moira https://ist.mit.edu/email-lists

people just make filters.