> My current mail reading environment is not well suited to situations where a large amount of the volume is uninteresting to me and I'm picking through it for

> My current mail reading environment is not well suited to situations where a large amount of the volume is uninteresting to me and I'm picking through it for the small number of interesting discussions of interesting issues. In a forum, I could ignore entire topic areas and most of the threads, focusing only on some specific ones of interests; in my current mailing list environment, I drown and stop reading. This could be accomplished by having different mailing lists for each major topic area (perhaps utilizing the + for topic aliases).