On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:13:21 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> That's why I use it as a source to see what I should read about - I
> don't just look at the headline (well, usually, I do - and that's what I
> use to determine if I want to read more).  If the story looks
> interesting, then I'll read the referenced article, because /. nearly
> always includes a link to the source article, and that's where the good
> info is.
> 
> IOW, I use it as a news filter for geek-related topics.

Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I 
just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few 
days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks 
interesting, then I read a few messages.  Stopping every once in a while 
to see if the topic has changed.

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
> just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
> days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
> interesting, then I read a few messages.  Stopping every once in a while
> to see if the topic has changed.

I used to do that on these newsgroups while offline, a few years ago.

I looked for interesting subjects, marked them for download, and connected
to my dialup ISP for a few minutes at night (when phone is cheaper) to get
them :)

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:44:36 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
>> just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
>> days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
>> interesting, then I read a few messages.  Stopping every once in a
>> while to see if the topic has changed.
> 
> I used to do that on these newsgroups while offline, a few years ago.
> 
> I looked for interesting subjects, marked them for download, and
> connected to my dialup ISP for a few minutes at night (when phone is
> cheaper) to get them :)

Yeah, that was really common for me on CompuServe as well, until I got a 
sponsored account.  :-)

Jim

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