Arthur,
I used to read IBM-Main almost exclusively through the newsgroup. At work,
the newsgroup often fell behind by 2 or 3 days. When it worked normally,
most of the time, it was about a half hour behind, but sometimes it went for
a week with no postings. I finally set up this account from my home email.
P&H didn't block the Wisconsin Roadrunner site, so I was able to read the
emails both from home and at work. Now that I'm home full time, I usually
just use Outlook Express. I tend to like the emails better than the
newsgroup.
I think today must have been close to a record day for IBM-Main. Any
comment, Darren?
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main
On 29 Jun 2006 20:33:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Eric Bielefeld
wrote:
I've also used sorting by threads, but Outlook Express doesn't work very
well for me when you have 20 or 30 emails that you want to save for a
while in my in basket. I haven't figured out how to get all my IBM-Main
emails into a folder and keep them going there. I did it when I had
Groupwise at work.
You might try what I do: Post via the LISTSERV, but set the account
to NOMAIL. Then read via the Newsgroup bit.listserv.ibm-main . My
newsreader (Agent) threads the posts (mostly), and it gives me at least as
good control as Charles reports: I mark some threads for auto-retrieval,
I don't even download the posts in some threads, and the rest I make
individual decisions about.
There are two additional features I like:
1. It's pull technology. I get the posts when I want to, and I'm not
constantly bothered by several dozen e-mails per day.
2. Some people don't know about the LISTSERV and post directly to the
newsgroup. I get to see those posts. (And tell the posters that most of
the people *aren't* seeing their posts.) For instance, you probably
didn't see the response in this thread by bfwd who said:
Many of those retired, laid off, or, for whatever reason, not working
are using this as a chat room.
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