Re: [ga] The noise is not reaching me...

[Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, 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.

ipso facto - the only solution is to bury the list.  won't work.

regards
joe