[TowerTalk] Managing information

[Pete Smith]

At 06:00 AM 6/30/98 -0600, T A RUSSELL wrote:
>
>Good Question !
>
>I have 112 files and still have 3000 messages residing in my in-box.
>File topics include several sub topics on AMPS, ANTENNAS, TOWERS,
>DX, PROPAGATION, CONTESTING and several single headings.  
>
>The information overload  is hard to handle.  With 5 reflector
>subscriptions,
>I am seriously considering giving up one or two to reduce the volume.
>
>Remember, there ARE archives where many of the reflector messages
>may be retrieved.

True, and they're pretty good, but typically they only cover a month at a
time, and the key words chosen for a search must be in the title or the
sender's address.  I went looking for something I posted on the cq-contest
reflector back in 1994, and I spent about an hour looking, and I never did
find it.


73,  Pete Smith N4ZR
In wild, wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia

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