RE: insomnia, word styles and an overwhelming number of replies

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

Robert Nagle asks:
>It seems absolutely amazing though how many people  actively read and
>reply here.  When I worked at Dell, I  often followed reading lists, but
>gosh, keeping up with this list is practically a full time job in
>itself. How do you guys manage it? I'm a voracious reader and writer,
>but even I find the size and breadth of this list overwhelming for one
>sitting.

When I was on digest, I used to skim-read the whole digest and pause to
focus only on the bits that looked interesting useful. Now I get individual
messages. Every month I delete the ones I haven't read yet that I am
unlikely to find either interesting or useful. (The ones I do read, I
usually delete faster.) One reason why I switched to individual mails from
digest is that there are a very few posters who never seem to have anything
new/useful to contribute - and I can save time by never reading them.
Sometimes, as when I came in this morning, I find I can delete an entire
thread unread immediately. Basically, I find it useful to be able to pick
and choose which bits to read and not read, which posts are keepers and
which are, well, eliminatory material <g>. It's a process! <ggg>

Jane Carnall
Platon: modo fac. Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added
automatically and outwith my control.


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