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. -- Carlos E. Araya ---+ WebCT Administrator/Trainer P | California Virtual Campus - | C/O De Anza College G | 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd ---+ Cupertino, CA 95014 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.cvc1.org/ (work) http://www.silverwolf-net.net (personal) phone 408 257 0420 (work) PGP Fingerprint: E629 5DFD 7EAE 4995 E9D7 3D2F 5A9F 0CE7 DFE7 1756 Paradoxically, a refusal to 'put a monetary value on life' means that life is often undervalued. -- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
