On 27 May 2005, Stephen Trapani wrote:
thirty seconds to scroll down through all
the subject headers. If I see a subject and author that looks
interesting, I read the entire message. Once I get to the end of the
subject lines I go up to the "Message" menu pick "Mark as read"

Similar here except I mark the uninteresting and hijacked threads
"Ignore". Saves the time of skipping them again on future header
downloads.

Maybe you all need better newsreader software?

Define "better". I've tried quite a few (including T'bird) and
haven't found anything faster, more stable, less bloated, more
configurable, etc than Agent for non-binary newsgroups. Granted, it
has a longer/taller learning curve than most.

Rick