Information Overload (Was: Re: )

Not that I disagree, but as a suggestion, what I have done is to sign up for
both lists and create a filter on my email program to sort the messages into
2 separate folders.  Then, when I have a Midrange-L Question, I just create
a new filter based on the Subject of my email and have those copied back to
my Inbox folder.  This way, I can see the responses to my question without
having to weed through all the emails on that list.  It also serves me to
keep all these messages so that I can scan for answers to questions locally
(scanning my Midrange-L mail folder) instead of going out to the archives.
I realize that this depends on how much hard drive space one has.

Just my 2 cents.


Joe Giusto II
Programmer/Analyst
Ritz Camera
Beltsville, MD
301-419-3209 x347
410-813-2812 x347

 -----Original Message-----
From:   owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]  On
Behalf Of Troy.C.Dills@blum.com
Sent:   Monday, May 14, 2001 11:52 AM
To:     rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject:

I agree 100%, I signed up for midrange-l and could not keep up with all the
messages.
Some of us really have to work through the day and I'm doing well to keep up
with
reading the RPG mailing list. I'm not saying this to open up a door for all
questions,
but is should hurt if someone has an off topic question and if someone could
help
then email them directly. (just my humble opinion) after all this is the
place were people
come for help.

Thanks Troy


I think the problem here was that the original question was not 'How do I do
a traceroute using RPG?' rather than the less specific 'How do I do a
traceroute on the AS/400?'.  It seemed unlikely that the person asking the
question was looking for an RPG solution.

I think a lot of people sign up to list but not Midrange-l due to the high
volume of traffic on the latter. Then they cannot be bothered to sign up to
Midrange-l just to ask one question so ask it here in hope of a quick
answer.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCarty [mailto:Mark_McCarty@nexnet.navy.mil]
Sent: 14 May 2001 3:27
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: TRACE ROUTE



Then it could be an RPG question if someone were not on V5R1?

MarK A McCarty
AS/400 Programmer/Developer
Navy Exchange Service Command


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