On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers >to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a better bet for dealing with a high volume threaded discussion group. I'm responding to this in a gated newsgroup set up by my ISP, but I could just as easily have set it up myself, and I have done so. >Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the >subject line, or only replies to your questions, and filter out all >the others? These are standard facilites provided by news clients like slrn and pan. >Also, is there any way to filter the messages **before** downloading >them from your ISP to your local machine, which takes time in itself? If you use fetchmail to collect your mail then I vaguely recall that something like this is possible. However, I don't use it so I may well be hallucinating. Frank
