> >I am seriously considering making this list digest only. It is my
> >contention that doing so might cut down on a lot of the useless banter
> >that does little more than aggravate those looking for real information.
>
> For handling the mail volume, there are some alternatives.
> first (and best?) have the news admin unpack the mail list into a local
> newsgroup, like alt.sex.british-cars, and use TRN to sort through it.
> I don't have it here, but did at my last site. Works great!
>
> I have also been told that mush will handle the sortification of
> incoming mail messages. Source should be on the way and I will let
> interested parties know how that works (unless someone's already done
> it).
If your site has the ELM mailer, you can use ELM's "filter" program to
save all the britcar messages into a separate folder, and then read
them at your leisure. This helps keep your main mailbox from getting
overwhelmed.
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