SC - SCA-Cooks traffic

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

that's right, boys and girls, this is a prime reason to keep on topic and
change the subject line if you start changing subjects.

glad to hear I'm not the only one who filters this group heavily based on
subject lines! :)

- --Anne-Marie, who will often read only one or two message a day and delete
the rest....

Bonne sez:>
>Or, train yourself not to read everything.  Most days the first thing I do 
>when I open the mailbox is read a few posts in threads I know haven't been 
>of interest to me yet and if it still isn't, delete the whole bunch.  If it 
>is a really popular thread, after a few days I'll set up a filter to dump it 
>in the trash instead of my sca-cooks folder.  The way things mutate I often 
>need 3 or 4 filters to really weed out a topic. but it's the only way I can 
>keep my mailbox from overflowing and e-mail reading from taking over my 
>life.  It's hard, since I know even the goofiest joking thread can reverse 
>itself into a useful one again.  I figure if anything truly useful comes up, 
>it will end up in the Florilegium and my life will not come to an end if I 
>don't read it here first.