tyan at twcny.rr.com (Thomas Yan) writes: > But it is sentiments like the above that make me fond of newsgroups, > including rec.arts.sf.written (RASFW), which does discuss Brust from > time to time. As its name suggests, rasfw has a broader focus than > this mailing list, which has its pluses and minuses. A good > newsreader lets you easily: > > + auto-delete or auto-select articles with a given Subject > + auto-delete or auto-select articles from a given author > + delete (for today or forever) an article and all replies to it > etc. > > And one thing I'm still need to learn, is that if there are many posts > I'm not interested in, it is ok to be over-aggressive in > (auto-)deleting subjects and authors and miss *some* interesting posts > as long as a high enough fraction of the remaining posts keep me > interested and happy. > > ( > It's going to be interesting for me to when a new book comes out and > I'll have to choose whether to post here or rasfw or both. I suspect > I'll tend to choose rasfw because I'm more proficient at using my > newsreader than I am at using my mailer. > ) In my case, I read both mailing lists and newsgroups with the same tool, so I do the same kind of scoring and sorting on both. Very handy. (gnus) -- 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