Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: In Moderation
Message-ID: <8033@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 89 17:25:22 GMT
References: <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3579@looking.on.ca> <24B4CCD7.5183@ateng.com> <3600@looking.on.ca> <24B8CEB3.19453@ateng.com> <295@ecijmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <295@ecijmm.UUCP> jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
>Why is it so hard to accept the value of paying someone to take out the
>trash?  Surely you can understand that someone might feel that the gain
>in being able to read all of their favourite newsgroups in 20 minutes per
>day instead of 6 hours per day is much greater than the combined value of
>all of the additional interesting articles they would have found by doing
>their own searching?

Frankly, I find using the '=', ^N and search-string options in rn let me
manage quite well, and my .newsrc keeps 145 active groups.  I get through
in about 20-25 minutes/day.  Occasional use of KILL files when a unwanted
topic blooms (how many more Bat-movie articles do YOU want to see in 
rec.arts.movies?) helps even further.  I continue to check the headers,
though, so I can see if something new and interesting comes through, and 
I can't see how I.M. would be able to know my mind well enough to pick up 
on these things on my behalf.

						Bob Halloran
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