From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 04:04:41 MST
It appears as if Richard Steven Hack <richardhack@pcmagic.net> wrote:
|
|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.
I find this situation amusing. Sending a human to do a machine's work.
How one-dimensional the list has become..
A procedure for implementing a move to maximize the number of posts per
time unit to some arbitrary number (e.g. 6/day) would be to hold the
subsequent entries in the queue for the next.
A line could be added to the end of each entry stating the number of
additional entries in the queue.
The old extropians mailing list had related functionality, if memory serves.
/kpj
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