Beldarrin at aol.com writes: > So... That is why I am all for the segmenting of the mailing > list. Who has time to thoroughly (or even not-so-thoroughly) > read like 50+ e-mails a day, especially when some of them are > as lengthy as mine gnerally turn out to be? (Okay, someone be > a smartass and chime in here.) While I'd love to be able to > stay at home and check e-mails all day (okay, maybe no I > wouldn't), it's simply not feasible for me, and apparently many > others on this board, to do so. At first, I tried to keep up, > then I just found it to be way too cumbersome. The problem is: > Major lack of time! Priorities and such, or something. I read well over 500 messages a day, myself. Probably closer to 1000; I don't bother to count exactly. Have most days in the last 15 years, too. This is not a particularly active mailing list, by Internet mailing list standards. Nor by Usenet newsgroup standards. Really. Getting it in digest form can make it seem like less (fewer interruptions, anyway; it'd arrive once a day I believe). Having your mail program sort it into its own folder is the way most people handle mailing lists these days; then you go in and read it when you have time. And most mailers can sort by subject or thread or sender, and some can even do complex "scoring" where it decides which messages you want to see first based on criteria you give it. And you can browse the web archive, by author, thread, or date, too. I wouldn't want to make people less interested in the topic, so I don't think we can do anything about the overall volume, though. Other than making a few splits now and then, as they seem worth making. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info