Re: huge lists

[Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>]

On Oct 20, Steve Lamb decided to present us with:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 04:15:28 -0200, Lalo Martins wrote:
> 
> >We have some lists that are absolutely unmanageable for most
> >users, like debian-{user,devel}.
> 
>     Personally, if someone finds user/devel "unmanagable" it is time they
> learned an important word.  "Filter."  :)

No. If you get them by POP over slow PPP they're a headache.

And if by "filter" you mean automatically deleting messages that
don't interest you, on what criteria would you make this
decision?

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