Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!rutgers!netsys!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: I'm tired of alt.rissa! Summary: Get a new mailer. Message-ID: <13656@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 15 Mar 89 03:31:42 GMT References: <763@twwells.uucp> <13356@steinmetz.ge.com> <780@twwells.uucp> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 20 In article <780@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes: >It's not that easy. With my current setup, I get constant messages >bugging me to create/rmgroup this thing. It's not the newsgroup >itself that bothers me, I could cheerfully ignore it along with the >other almost 400 groups I don't read, it is the irritation of dealing >with the messages. I subscribe to control and have NONEWGROUPS defined [ or whatever that option is called ... ]. I have NO trouble skimming pass 100+ messages a day in control, and several hundred more a week in the usenet mailbox. How? Simple. I have a KILL file in control and I delete more mail messages than I read. Truly a revolutionary idea. -- John F. Haugh II +-Cause of the Week:------------------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | St. Patricks Day: Wear white for InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | peace. End the bloodshed in Ireland. UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------