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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
- Message-ID: <JEM.93Jan11212955@lk-hp-6.hut.fi>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:29:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-Reply-To: dthumim@athena.mit.edu's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:28:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
-
- >I have almost gotten to the point where I can no longer keep up with c.o.l.,
- >even though I want to. As the group is *not* going to be split any time
- >soon, I would like to suggest that we try instead to reduce the traffic in
- >here!
-
- One way of dealing with the volume of this group is to do what I do:
- read the subjects and see if there are any articles that interest
- you. If so, read them and junk the rest.
-
- With some newsreaders like rn and gnus you can also scan articles for
- patterns. For instance, if you can't get your PS/2 mouse to work with
- X, you can (or should I say 'should') first scan the unread articles
- for the string 'mouse'. This way you can with little effort find out
- if somebody else has had the same problem recently, and need not waste
- energy and net bandwidth by asking the same question again.
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-