If I may make a suggestion:

Whoever starts the thread may, once a week or so (depending on the thread's
traffic), post a summary. That way the people who have been away can catch
up to the discussion? Then you can put those summaries on an RSS channel.


On 01/06/02 3:44, "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
>> I challenge any of you to catch up after a few days away from the ML,
>> get a message from a populated thread, glance at it and understand what
> 
> Oh yes, it's not easy, especially for people like me who only read the list
> every few days.  The only way this place is tolerable is because I'm
> actually on the far side of a mail2news gateway and the newsreader (slrn)
> has a function to collapse quotes to a single line (T in default bindings).
> 
> Anyone who's on a Unix system should probably consider putting high-traffic
> lists into a local newsserver if they can.  It's also an easy way for others
> on your system to get read-only access to them.  The filtering and scoring
> systems of newsreaders are generally far better than mail clients, as they
> assume that you're only interested in a small fraction of the messages.

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