Is there a better way of scanning this list ?

[Robert Brenstein]

>I continue to be amazed at how much useful information passes 
>through this list on a daily basis, and the incredible speed that 
>one gets a response to ones questions (many, many, thanks to all!!), 
>however even with digests set the time one spends browsing is a lot 
>and I was wondering if anybody had developed a stack to read the 
>list in a more intelligent manner.

For such a high-volume list, digest is definitely not an optimal way 
of participating or lurking. Most email clients nowadays support 
filtering of incoming emails. heck it out. If you never used 
filtering, here are the steps: a) create a separate mailbox for this 
list, and b) set a filter to transfer messages from this list (after 
changing yout subscription to individual messages, of course) into 
that mailbox. Some email programs support threading whereas others 
have subject-based concatenator to group messages from the same topic 
together. I think you will be more happy with this. And you can keep 
selected messages, thus creating a personal archive that you can 
search quickly.

Robert