Bo Yang wrote: > Hi everyone , > I have join this list for about 4 months , and everyday I receive > hundreds of > mails . There is no means to read all of them , so I just read something > interesting > for me . But if so , there are too much mails pile up in my inbox , I > want to ask > how do you use this list , reading every mail come in or just read what > you think > interesting ? > > Thank you ! > > > Best Regard !
I am using a newsreader capable of showing posting in their threads in a hierarchical view. I read entire messages only if I mean the topic is of interest to me, if I have spotted something interesting in the first lines of a posting or if I mean, that I can immediately help writing a reply without much efforts on my side what is the case when the answer pops up in my mind already as I see the question. It was the topic "How do you use this list?" what attracted my attention so I looked into the content of your posting and decided to reply. My advice: download e.g. Thunderbird and use it as a newsreader instead of getting through not by thread and date structured piles of emails. I actually go through each single posting spending at least a second on each (sometimes a bit faster, sometimes much slower). This gives an effort of about 10 minutes of very concentrated work towards selection of interesting postings for detailed reading on a day with a huge traffic of around 600 new postings. Over years of reading I improved much the speed of perception at first glance if a posting or a thread is in my eyes worth to read it in detail. As I also in between know who writes here the best quality replies I usually read carefully all the details in postings of such authors skipping from reading another postings in same thread. Hope this helps. Claudio
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