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