Help! I've got 744 unread messages!

I am only a newbie to the conlang mailing list. For the first few days I
could handle the message load, and I managed to read everything. Then I
went overseas for a week, and have been busy at school since, so now I
have 744 unread messages. I don't think I will be able to read them all
in a lifetime!

There is a lot of interesting discussion going on, but there also seems
to be a lot of 'Me too!' postings, and fifty people giving reasonably
similar answers to the same question.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how to sort the interesting
discussion from the piles of electronic excreetement?