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From: dpb <none@non.net>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: Moderated
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:31:17 -0500
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rych wrote:
> 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.

Use either TMW portal (can't say anything about it except I know it 
exists as w/ dialup it's not convenient) or a "real" newsreader rather 
than google would help.  I'm not sure whether g-g has implemented any 
user-settable filtering or not--last I looked didn't appear so, but 
that's been quite some time ago.

c.s-s.m is an unmoderated usenet group so it has all the warts and 
benefits thereof.  One can use it and the tools available for usenet or 
choose another route I think is the upshot.

I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird and it doesn't take long to catch up 
a time or two a day.  A couple of filters for some of the repetitive 
stuff and easy enough to mark the usual suspects of "urgent", etc., as 
"ignore thread" and they'll not show up again even if hey devolve into a 
discussion of the ethics of homework assistance.

$0.02, ymmv, imo, etc., etc., ...

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