Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:47:38 -0700
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From: ddes@anet-dfw.com (David Schwarze)
Subject: Re: Let's make this large list EASIER ! !
At 6:49 AM 6/22/96, MICHAEL G BENTHIN wrote:
>ALERT: nearly 100 posts a day is too much to cope with-
Depends on your definition of "cope with". If cope with means reading each
and every message, then yes, you are right. I go through and delete the
subjects that I'm not interested, and skim the rest. Takes me 15 - 30
minutes. For what I get in return, that's a good investment to me. :-)
PLEASE let's set up some common rules-
>I (as an air-cooled enthusiast) propose the following rules for this list
>please feed back better suggestions or please comply!!
Okay, but let's call them "suggestions", okay? Gerry makes the rules.
>***This can be further refined by sorting out keywords placed IN SUBJECT
>HEADING or at least first line, so I can create folders separately holding
>air-cooled specific queries/comments from general stuff like trip reports
>and show notices.
Don't take this the wrong way, but from reading this it looks like you are
asking the other 600 members of this list to post in a manner that makes it
easier for you personally (and possibly a few select others) to read.
My mail software cannot sort by subject or anything else, and I'm not
willing to shell out $80 for the version that does. I'm sure many others
are in the same boat. For us, such tokens in the subjects are useless. I
agree though that subjects should be as specific as possible, and include
location, and I've noticed that lately most people have been doing pretty
well in that department.
>Suggestions are:
> 1. WC - water cooled specific- just putting "87 Westy in subj helps those
>perusing by eye, but makes it difficult to set up smart sweeps!
I think the year is best. That and the author are about all I look at.
I'm not really sure what a "smart sweep" is, exactly. Probably some
Prodigy thing. I suppose if the filter were flexible to allow you to
specify enough things, I might use it.
SELECT * from VANAGON where (SUBJECT ! CONTAINS [84:96] || eurovan ||
wasserboxer) || (AUTHOR CONTAINS jwal || gsker)
Sorry my "query" is so bad, but it's been a few years since I did that
stuff. You get the idea.
>PLEASE CHANGE SUBJECT if "reply" to post changes original subject intent!!
Ummm... yeah. I'm guilty of that. I will try and do better.
>-Anyone able to set up separate AC list? I like this better than the AC
>newsgroup, which requires all that logging on stuff.
Yeah, hate that logging on. So when are you gonna set up the AC list? :-)
-David
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