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From: rych <rychphd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Moderated
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Perhaps the way I read this newsgroup is not right, I don't know. I'm
subscribed to it via Google groups so that I get 1 email per day, and
because this list is so active it always exceeds (how far!?) 100
messages per day, so I get it "abridged". I won't have time to browse
more that 100 per day anyway. Now, this long email has excerpts 3-4
lines from each of the new message. As I'm scrolling it, when I see an
interesting title subtitle, I click. There are always quite a few spam
messages (trying to sell something). There are also a lot of "please
help", "urgent", do-my-homework type titles that I'm learning to
ignore in a split of a second. It's because posts appear immediately!
This is just not right. Could we employ just one person to read and
discard some messages? Take a look at the moderated Mathematica group,
for example, it's much cleaner. I'm not asking to separate students
from R&D people, but for some elementary filtering out of spam and
"urgent" posts.