NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/games/22098

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From: [e-mail] (John Brinckerhoff Clements)
Subject: Re: Reorg: Suggestions for possible subgroups?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael McCarthy) writes:
>
>A "for-sale" group would be great as well.
>
>I don't agree that a good kill-file will eliminate most of the volume.
>I get very tired going through 100/150 articles AFTER my kill file
>has gone through it. The problem is, that most of the volume is made
>up of people who don't use naming conventions, and who usually ask FAQ's

  This may be irrelevant for most of you, but for those on UNIX systems
the threaded news reader "trn" is fabulously useful.  Not only does it
group articles with common subject matter together, allowing you to move
back and forth in the "tree" of responses to a given post (alone worth
the price of admission) you can scan subject headers and kill them
nearly as fast as you can read them.  To go through a hundred messages
(assuming I don't want to reply to any of them) takes a minute, give or
take a few seconds.  "trn": check it out.  Tell 'em Marlin sent you.

john clements
21, thistle pooper