Too many Internet Writing Workshop emails in your inbox? This page is here to help.

Emails--SUBs, CRITS, and discussion posts, are our workshop's blood. We have nine critiquing lists and four discussion lists, each sending emails in this electronic school where we all teach each other.

Two Solutions. 

1) Receive in DIGEST format where each list's daily emails come stacked in one or more large emails. See instructions for setting your address to "digest" at http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/listserv.shtml.

2) MAILBOXES (or FOLDERS) and FILTERS.

Mailboxes are usually found in a column on the left edge your email program's screen.

For example: 
Inbox 
Outbox 
Trash 
Junk 

All modern email programs let you create your own new mailboxes. 

Start by creating a mailbox for each of the lists you've subscribed to. 
(I'll tell you how in a minute.) 

For example, assume you've joined Poetry-W, Practice-W and the Writing list. You would create mailboxes like this: 
Poetry-W 
Practice-W 
Writing 

(You're not limited to these. Use your imagination.) 

Next, you would tell your email program to automatically sort incoming mail, whether individual emails or digests, into the proper mailboxes. You can also move emails manually from your inbox to named mailboxes. 

WEB SITES THAT TELL YOU HOW TO CREATE 
EMAIL BOXES AND SORTING RULES: 
I found the following using Google. Do your own search, and you can find others.
You can also use the words Email Filter and Email Rules. 

Outlook Express and Windows Mail (Vista): http://email.about.com/cs/oetipstricks/qt/et081203.htm. 

Microsoft Outlook 2000: 
http://www.zerobeat.net/qrp/docs/outlook2000.html 

Eudora: 
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/eudora/organizing.html.

Gmail: 
http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_gmail_folder.htm 

Yahoo mail: 
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/index.html 

Hotmail: 
http://email.about.com/cs/hotmailtips/qt/et102101.htm