From:	Matti Aistrich <aistrich@********.hkkk.fi>
Subject:	Re: Personal Problem
Date:	Fri, 3 May 1996 11:34:18 +0300 (EET DST)

On Wed, 1 May 1996 dhinkley@***.ORG wrote:

> >I've pretty much tried everything I can do about this, but have been
> >unable to solve the problem. So now I'm faced with having to consider
> >unsubscribing.
> >
> I have a similar problem. # days with out checking my mail and I have
> hundreds to read. My solution is to sort the mesages by subject line. Then
> sample a few of the messages to get the gest of the thread if it is of intrest I
> read them all, if not I delete the lot without reading [sorry guys but time is
> limited :) ]. You will miss things but not a lot as often the same answer is
> supplied by several people a the same time.

I tried that, but it didn't work for me. When I do it, a couple of days
later I find that there was something interesting in the messages I
deleted I would have loved to comment on. Also, the list's subject lines
tend to be pretty unrelated to the discussion sometimes (I know, I'm as
much, if not more, at fault as everybody else).

Same would happen if I would unsubscribe, then subscribe back for a few
days at a time, PLUS I would miss messages aimed at me, PLUS I do not
always know when I will be unable to read my mail.

What I am doing is I read the most recent thing in the thread first, then
I just skim through the previous messages in that thread. It still takes
too much time.

> As to spliting the list, I don't think it is a good idea, there is too
> much good cross pollenasion between rules interprtation and game ideas.
>
I figured as much at first as well. I know it might be somewhat more
difficult, but hey, we've got NERPS, etc., as their own lists as well and
it works. PLUS there might be more and better traffic when the lists
would be somewhat more defined in content.

But I can see that I'm not getting much enthusiams here. Too bad.

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