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From: "John D'Errico" <woodchips@rochester.rr.com>
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rych <rychphd@gmail.com> wrote in message <3d106703-cb46-4a09-
bcb6-762b8c6da614@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>...
> Thanks everyone for explanations and good advice. I think I'm going to
> try a newsreader with sorting/filtering.
> 
> matt dash
> "All of you" who are so very active, so "massive", who can't wait for
> a peer review, but require every word to be published straight away,
> still well-thought-out? That's great. I just hope you don't actually
> compete by the sheer number of posts.

A newsreader can work very well. I like the one I use, although
the Matlab Central interface has advantages too, with its use of
tags. I use them both.

If I respond to a dozen or so questions in a day, waiting for
them to be accepted by a moderator would be far too slow.
In some threads I need to wait until some point is clarified,
so I need several rounds of responses. This would take
forever if a moderator had to intercede.

Yes, there are forums where no intercessions are made until
a flame war starts. These are lightly moderated forums, where
a thread can be shut down by a moderator/super user. But
that cannot be done on a usenet group. And the group
comp.soft-sys.matlab is fundamentally a usenet group, as
it has been for 20 years.

John