Main List Survival Strategy (WAS: Retreating to the safety of OTChatter

[David]

Debbie wrote:

> I thought I'd share 
> my own personal Main List Survival Strategy, since I can't read 
500 
> posts a day either.  Here's what I do.  I pick a topic I'm 
interested 
> in, like Snape's pensieve memories.  Then I simply search on those 
> terms using the Yahoo search function, which is lousy for digging 
> back through the archives, but it works fine when you just want to 
> see what's been posted in the last few days. 

Mine is shameful.  I use the search function to look for the e-mail 
addresses of people whose posts I like.  It's bad because it means 
interesting new people join the list and I don't realise it for 
weeks or months.

David