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Subject: Re: Please prune this list!
From: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:08:14 -0400
To: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
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At 09:13 AM 2002-07-06 -0700, JC Dill wrote:

>That's a great idea in principle, but how many ordinary users have both 
>the knowledge and the ability to filter on fields like Sender?

I look at the road rally list on my computer as that prime "semi-literate" 
group.  I changed the list such that I was no longer setting sender (by 
accident, I thought I was) and I got a massive uproar.  My guess was that 
an absolute minimum of 20% of the users were filtering by sender.


--
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of 
nature!"
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Nick Simicich - njs@scifi.squawk.com




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