--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> >Mais non! I certainly don't want you out - but
> >can you not delete?
>
> I takes me just as much time as reading, so why
> bother?
Either you read very slowly or we have very
different methods of handling list traffic!!
> >Sure. IF the limit were 400 (and if we ever
> >generated 400 messages in a day!), it would
> take
> >me the same amount of time to pare down to and
> >read 100 messages as it now takes you to read
> >every single message generated on a busy day.
>
> But it would take me 4 times more time if I
> just read the posts, and 8
> times more time if I first skimmed through them
> to delete them.
Well, don't skim then! I don't. I just look down
the list of subject lines and delete or leave the
ones I choose. Going through the whole queue of
subject lines takes less time than reading one
fairly short message.
> >Amie! I have experience in it, too, and it
> >works fine!
>
> For you maybe.
Obviously!! :))
> > I used to read everything in this list (and
> >a few others, plus NGs). It's been a while
> since
> >I figured that a large percentage of those
> >messages just weren't relevant or interesting
> to
> >me.
>
> Indeed, but my experience is that it's not
> something you can guess from
> message titles.
Perhaps not. Different strokes for different
fokes, eh!
> >Maybe we just have different reading styles or
> >speeds. It takes less than a minute to go
> >through a hundred titles.
>
> I can't imagine how you do that!
Good pattern recognition and memory for what was
in previous messages of a certain subject line, I
guess.
> > First of all, I keep in mind
> >the threads I was interested in from last time
> -
> >so will keep those. If I delete one message,
> it
> >takes no thought at all to delete all the
> others
> >in the same thread.
>
> I don't have that kind of memory.
Ah.
> Moreover, threads evolve so quickly on
> this list that thread titles are not a good
> parameter to decide whether a
> post is interesting or not.
Perhaps not if you're seeing it for the first
time! For example, I have no idea what sort of
messages got this thread started: I mean
"blocking the list"? I don't even know what that
means. All I know is that I associate our
discussion with the above subject thread.
As for new threads, I guess I just have to make a
decision whether or not to keep it. I seem to
find more than enough interesting posts and
threads to get involved in! ;)
> Since moreover most
> posts are just a few lines
> long, it takes just a few second to read them,
> just as long as it takes to
> decide to delete them or not. There's just no
> point in doubling the effort
> for nothing.
But there's no doubled effort. I don't even see
the messages until after I've scanned the queue.
Padraic.
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