Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

Arthur,

I used to read IBM-Main almost exclusively through the newsgroup. At work, the newsgroup often fell behind by 2 or 3 days. When it worked normally, most of the time, it was about a half hour behind, but sometimes it went for a week with no postings. I finally set up this account from my home email. P&H didn't block the Wisconsin Roadrunner site, so I was able to read the emails both from home and at work. Now that I'm home full time, I usually just use Outlook Express. I tend to like the emails better than the newsgroup.

I think today must have been close to a record day for IBM-Main. Any comment, Darren?

Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434

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On 29 Jun 2006 20:33:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<fdfcab6f217fa.217fafdfcab6f@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) Eric Bielefeld wrote:

I've also used sorting by threads, but Outlook Express doesn't work very well for me when you have 20 or 30 emails that you want to save for a while in my in basket. I haven't figured out how to get all my IBM-Main emails into a folder and keep them going there. I did it when I had Groupwise at work.

You might try what I do: Post via the LISTSERV, but set the account to NOMAIL. Then read via the Newsgroup bit.listserv.ibm-main . My newsreader (Agent) threads the posts (mostly), and it gives me at least as good control as Charles reports: I mark some threads for auto-retrieval, I don't even download the posts in some threads, and the rest I make individual decisions about.

There are two additional features I like:

1. It's pull technology. I get the posts when I want to, and I'm not constantly bothered by several dozen e-mails per day.

2. Some people don't know about the LISTSERV and post directly to the newsgroup. I get to see those posts. (And tell the posters that most of the people *aren't* seeing their posts.) For instance, you probably didn't see the response in this thread by bfwd who said:
Many of those retired, laid off, or, for whatever reason, not working
are using this as a chat room.

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