Main List Survival Strategy

[Cindy C.]

David confessed:


> 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.

Mine is even more shameful.  I use the search function to search 
for "TBAY" before anything else.  Man, you lose the plot of what's 
going on in the Bay and you are really, er, up a creek without a 
paddle.  And boy, it used to be really hard to keep up before we had 
the prefix!

Catlady:

>If you don't read Main List posts by people you don't know, then you 
>probably haven't seen all the combined-reply messages because 
>threading doesn't work on them) 

Yeah, those combined messages are a problem for me too.  I miss most 
of them, I'm afraid, because the threading function doesn't work on 
them.  Definitely my loss.

Cindy -- admitting she hasn't read every single TBAY message ever 
posted, thinking she has come pretty close, but confessing that she 
never quite figured out what was going on in Diana's castle