Re: email and newsgroups (was: Ad questions)

Alan Richmond (WDVL_at_Stars.com)
Tue, 02 Jul 1996 12:35:14 -0400

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Tonyandpip_at_aol.com wrote:
[...]
> I think that this type of dropping messages onto newsgroups and maillists
> could be the way out of the Web overload - what do you think?

The opposite - my mailbox is flooded and the newsgroups are
saturated with junk. I even get email offering for sale programs that
scour mailing lists and newsgroups for email addresses. Most of my
incoming email is junk, but it's not always obvious which is, and which
isn't. Naturally the people who send it want me to read it so they don't
always put the whole thing in upper case and put 'incredible' in the
first sentence, and so I have to spend more than a few seconds reading
the damn thing. If you get a lot of such emails it mounts up, and the
several seconds get multiplied significantly. I've had to unsubscribe
from several mailing lists I would rather have stayed on, because I was
spending hours a day processing email. Filters are only useful up to a
point; I'd really love one that embodied some AI-style expert rules and
would at least rate each email with a probability of being junk. I also
get a lot of email asking technical questions which I used to answer
happily - but not any more. I have an FAQ at my site, and if things get
much worse I'll have to put an autoresponder on my Stars.com address and
establish a new address for private use. Until that one gets picked up..
I predict that email traffic is going to explode just like web traffic.
The big difference is I *choose* to visit web sites.
>
> Tony
> (I know my sig still advertises our web site, 'cost that's what we are still
> selling, so what I am saying is maybe we should change.)

There was no sig.

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