Re: Update on Carte Blanche status.

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Mark McDougall wrote:

> What I find more annoying than reading a few "commercial" postings (if 
> indeed they could be classified as such) is having to subscribe to a 
> bunch of sub-groups when I have absolutely zero interest in sorting 
> through posts of people selling old Apple II printer cables.
>
> And before it's pointed out that there may only be a few apple-related 
> sub-groups, and that they're "easy to peruse", I might add that - 
> perhaps surprising to some - my interests aren't just limited to the 
> apple and I already subscribe to no less than 18 usenet newsgroups and 
> 25 mailing lists.

I use Thunderbird to read news, and it only requires one keystroke to
continue with the "next" subscribed newsgroup, so all can be viewed as
nearly concatenated.  That takes all the pain out of multiple groups.

Since all csa groups put together have only a few messages more than
csa2, there is usually little additional message load.

Thunderbird does show me messages crossposted in multiple groups, which
is a little annoying, but it's pretty easy to hit "n" to get to a new
message.  ;-)

Since we do, in fact, have multiple subgroups, I'd like to see more
multiple group reading and less crossposting.  (Though if we had just
one group, that would take care of it, too.)

-michael

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