Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
of Postings on IBM-Main On 29 Jun 2006 20:33:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eric Bielefeld wrote: I've also used sorting by threads, but Outlook Express doesn't work very well for me when you have 20 or 30 emails that you want to save for a while in my

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
OK, I was the progenitor of Curiosity and it has really blossomed. If this group could all meet at SCIDS, I'm sure the conversations would go on for hours. This has been an interesting journey through many subtopics. Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford Company PH: 770 621

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:09:46 -0500, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Lately, there seems to be a very high traffic. A couple months ago, I don't think the average day got more than 100 messages total! I have noticed several postings from people I don't recognize lately. snip It goes

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:03:40 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Lately, there seems to be a very high traffic. A couple months ago, I don't think the average day got more than 100 messages total! I have noticed several postings from people I don't recognize lately. snip It goes in

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
It could be due to the *may-tag* repairman syndrome. The m/f just keeps on chugging and doesn't need as much help anymore. I subscribed to this listserver several years ago, but I also subscribed to the CICS and MQ listservers as well. I got inundated with the postings and dropped out of

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Mason
Mark ... my name was on the list of frequent posters that someone sited a while back ... I guess you mean cited. You see it's just that sort of thing that keeps the count up. g Chris Mason -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Bruce Black
Seriously, what I have found that really helps is I filter all the IBM-MAIN postings into their own Outlook folder, which I set up as View by conversation topic. This view sorts say 100 new e-mails into perhaps a dozen topics (subject lines). I then just delete unread with one keystroke any

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Jim McAlpine
Google mail does it also. Jim McAlpine On 6/30/06, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, what I have found that really helps is I filter all the IBM-MAIN postings into their own Outlook folder, which I set up as View by conversation topic. This view sorts say 100 new e-mails

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-30 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:33 -0500 on 06/29/2006, Eric Bielefeld wrote about Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main: I've also used sorting by threads, but Outlook Express doesn't work very well for me when you have 20 or 30 emails that you want to save for a while in my in basket. I haven't figured out how to get

Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Whats going on here. I'm unemployed right now, and I can barely keep up with the reading all of messages on IBM-Main lately. Yesterday, I last looked at messages around 10:00 P.M. last night. When I looked around 9:00 A.M. today, there were around 110. Now, after going shopping and having

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/29/2006 5:10:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A couple months ago, I don't think the average day got more than 100 messages total! I have noticed several postings from people I don't recognize lately. Maybe it's the downsizings and the

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Campbell Jay
A couple months ago, I don't think the average day got more than 100 messages total! I have noticed several postings from people I don't recognize lately. - Maybe it's the downsizings and the retirees?

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Charles Mills
. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Campbell Jay Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main A couple months ago, I don't think the average day got more

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Groupwise at work. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer 414-475-7434 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Original Message - From: Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:11 pm Subject: Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU I have noticed several

Re: Number of Postings on IBM-Main

2006-06-29 Thread Arthur T.
On 29 Jun 2006 20:33:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eric Bielefeld wrote: I've also used sorting by threads, but Outlook Express doesn't work very well for me when you have 20 or 30 emails that you want to save for a while in my in basket. I haven't