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Re: Re: [ga] The noise is not reaching me...
Kent Crispin wrote:
>
>1) If you are just joining the list for the first time you don't know
>who is worth reading and who isn't, so a list sorted by name isn't much
help
>2) If you look by author, then you lose threading
>3) It takes time to download a large index -- in fact, it takes time to
>*reload* a large index. Therefore a flood of garbage messages renders
>the index almost useless no matter how it is sorted.
>
4) What about the messages with fake originator? They are not archived
under the name of the real originator.
Roberto