----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" Subject: Re: OT: Labelling messages by topic D: S: F: P: OT: and so on (2)
> what makes you think that this would have any useful effect? all you would > is the same messages spread across 15 or so lists and an additional volume > of messages from people telling other people to post on the correct lists. > this has been tried every few minutes on Usenet and that's one of the > reasons the signal to noise ratio is so low. One time, in a moment of stupidity, I subscribed to a half dozen dog related lists. What with almost 100% cross posting, I think they generated close to 900 messages per day. William Robb
