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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux
- Keywords: alt.os.linux
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.133137.20634@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 13:31:37 GMT
- References: <laq91rINN5u0@cash.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Sep8.230047.24913@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Sep8.230047.24913@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
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- | I don't personally happen to think that comp.os.linux has too much
- | traffic (but then I use a threaded newsreader, trn, not rn or some BBS
- | read-messages-in-number-order software), and with the possible exception
- | of a comp.os.linux.announce (I'm still a bit uncertain about it), I
- | can't think of any good way to do a split. In any case, my gut feeling
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- The secret is to use the threading your reader has. rn will nicely
- follow or kill a thread *if you use the features*. xrn will let you scan
- the topics and only read the ones you want. I think the problem is
- largely on the top of the keyboard, the users who are having problems
- with the volume are not using the readers to best effect.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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