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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mailing lists Message-ID: <g89r4222.752876455@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <CGD.93Nov2125848@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CG3r20.Ko@genesis.nred.ma.us> <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov8224906@stark.uucp> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 20:20:55 GMT Lines: 23 In <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov8224906@stark.uucp> newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes: > >=>[ mailing lists vs. newsgroups ] >Yow! I just tried subscribing to the FreeBSD-hackers list for the first >time, but it was like turning a fire hose on my mailbox. I got over >120 messages since this morning for a total of about 500k. I gotta get >disconnected from this fast. Maybe I can handle it if I redirect the >firehose into a newsgroup, but definitely not in my personal mailbox. Run a filter on your mail - that way your mailing lists can be filtered directly into a folder, and you can look at them at leisure. (I even have a script running on one machine which cuts down one of my folders to 14 messages every evening at 7pm.) Geoff. -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\