From: Richard Steven Hack (richardhack@pcmagic.net)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 13:17:40 MST
At 09:42 AM 3/10/02 -0800, you wrote:
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>E. Shaun Russell Operations Officer, Extropy Institute
>e_shaun@extropy.org http://www.extropy.org
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I apologize for exceeding list limits by two or three for three recent days
out of 16 that I have posted.
I'll stop posting for a while to let everyone catch their breath, including
mine.
The discussions here are occasionally interesting, but as I said, they earn
me no money.
The time I spend going through 25 to 50 or more posts a day to find the
useful ones causes me more problems than the number of posts by any given
individual. Most mail and new readers have filters and preview panes - I
would imagine the number of posts by an individual can be easily handled by
filtering on the subject header (which does take some effort, of course,
but usually less than reading a bunch of messages). Obviously, the number
of posts rule is intended to limit the total number of posts one receives
in a day, but I would say that is not the most effective way to handle
it. Usenet has no such rule that I know of (as recent floods in several
newsgroups attest), which is why news readers have filters (except my Free
Agent, of course - and it has third party filters). Many mail and news
readers also have multiple mailboxes or folders and ways to filter messages
into them based on various headers. If one does not wish to read too many
posts, one could sort them by day, say them by day, and scan them when one
has time.
Information management is a bitch.
Richard Steven Hack
richardhack@pcmagic.net
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