From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T00:00:29+09:00
Subject: RE: [POLL]: ruby-talk seperation



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias DiPasquale [mailto:anany@ece.villanova.edu]
> 
> The problem is sheer mail volume. 100-150 messages a day on a single
> mailing list is too much to read if you have a job || life. That's what
> the essential problem is. I left for three days one time, and I come back
> to find 400+ messages from this mailing list... that's a little too much
> to read without shirking some other duty. So, even though those mailing
> lists exist, they are not alleviating the volume problem, which is what
> I'm trying to address.

I have a similar problem; I've managed to sort through things using Outlook message
rules to flag/color/move messages based on certain key words.  

There's a lot of mail, but scanning subject lines is still manageable.


James
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