On Sat, Mar 17, 2001, mulix wrote about "Re: Netvision NNTP Server":
> > People are also more inclined to start a mailing lists (especially when free
> > services like egroups are available) because it gives them some flattering
> > sense of control.
>
> we have been skirting around the main issue, imho. mailing lists are just
> more comfortable, since they land directly in your inbox.
Actually, having mailing list mail land directly in my inbox has long ago
become an unworkable solution. I get roughly 100-200 messages a day from
50 mailing lists, and it is impossible and extremely confusing to go through
them in one huge inbox. If anything, this is a bad thing about mailing lists,
not a good thing.
What I (and I guess most heavy mailing-list users) actually do is to filter
each mailing list into a seperate folder, and then read these seperate
folders. I have my mutt and zsh setup so that I know when new mail arrives
at any such folder, and easily read it. But I really don't see how that is
better than running "trn" (or whatever) and reading the various newsgroups.
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