Any maillist will have some non-topic-specific content - just as a
conversation in a room with technical people will contain some
non-technical, off-topic content.
I will say that the signal-to-noise ratio of the MG list is pretty high -
probably 90% or so directly relevent. Compared to some other lists where
you might be lucky to get 40%, it's pretty good.
However, you might want to look at getting an email program that can filter
messages automatically (like Eudora (www.eudora.com)), so all your MG
messages end up in one place, and you can only read the ones you
want. Otherwise, yes, it would get to be kind of heavy.
I'm not sure that there's a digest version enabled on this, although that
would be an alternative.
- Tab
At 08:11 PM 1/21/00 +0100, Math Agelink wrote:
>I subscribed to the MGs mailinglist just a few weeks ago and I enjoy the
>technical questions and the response that follows very much.
>Thanks fot that, all you MG Enthusiasts out there.
>However... about 80 e-mail messages a day is a lot, and reading them all is
>quite an effort. I for myself can do without all the messages concerning
>non-MG related items, and - forgive me for saying so - the occasional small
>talk that can be of hardly any interest for anyone but the sender and
>receiver.
>
>I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't think I have an attitude problem
>(since I drive MG, that can't be the case).
>I am just wondering if I am the only one who thinks this way.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Math Agelink
>
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