From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 17:39:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA29999 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:39:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (root@bbs.mpcs.com [204.215.226.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29989 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.mpcs.com (news@news1.mpcs.com [204.215.226.8]) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.7.3/8.7.3/MPCS) with ESMTP id UAA29289 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:38:52 -0400 Received: (from news@localhost) by news1.mpcs.com (8.7.3/8.7.3/MPCS) id UAA32607; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:38:48 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Path: hgoldste From: hgoldste@mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Date: 11 Jun 1996 00:38:46 GMT Organization: disorganization Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hg@penny.n2wx.ampr.org NNTP-Posting-Host: bbs.mpcs.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.5) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 10 Jun 1996 16:54:13 +0200, Darren Davis wrote: : There is too much noise, I think I need a straight jacket! : : I came back to my email from the weekend, and I had over 400 hundred emails. : All this is just two days! Most are from the FreeBSD mailing lists. : I can't keep up with this! There needs to be a better way. I must admit : some of my problems with managing my email are due to the tools I am unfortunately : forced to use. (Hey Terry, remember GroupWise under Unix?) For those : of you who have not experienced GroupWise, take my recommendation DON'T! : : What are the thoughts on breaking this stuff out of mail lists and into : news groups? (At least there I can use kill files to eliminate the noise.) Nasin in Munich reflects many of the freebsd lists (but not stable :( ) onto network news. This list, for example, shows up as muc.lists.freebsd.hackers . That's how I read it... -- Howard Goldstein