[thelist] OT: How do you handle thelist?
Jorah Lavin
madstone at madstone.net
Sat Apr 21 12:44:14 CDT 2001
At 01:34 PM 04/21/01, you wrote:
> I just
>wanted to ask how other handle thelist's masses of messages? I am
>sitting in front of 5000+
Filters. I have found that I am really not likely to go back and read
through 350+ messages, so I filter out anything I know I'm not really
interested in right now... in my case, ASP, Flash, Netscape, site reviews,
and many others go right to the circular file; not because I think they are
"bad," but because I have to have some focus, or I'd be swamped. I think
of it this way...
1) there are many, many web tech discussion lists, and I can't monitor more
than one or two
2) there are many, many topics on thelist, and I really can't read them
all, and many don't really apply to me at all
3) since I know from the start that there are limits to my attention and
time, why not "strike preemptively" and get a pruned version of thelist
which is much more tightly aligned with my current interests?
<tip>
You can't do it all, so why not focus on the things you are interested in?
Working with other professionals is a joy, so I'll leave the rest to others
on my team and elsewhere, and have time for a life away from the cyclops.
</tip>
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