rant
After a while, we humans decide that small annoyances need to end and
after hearing from an individual I don't know that I am off sick today
on the WSG group, I have decided enough is enough. What Russ and his band
of compatriots did back 15 years or so ago to create a group and spread
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of ewen.h...@health.vic.gov.au After a while, we humans
decide that small annoyances need to end and after hearing from an
individual I don't know that I am off sick today on the WSG group,
I
Today it is very hard to find time to fit in extra-curricular
activities so am not blaming anyone for a perceived lack of original
intent of the list currently. I found the list an enormous benefit to
me when I was just starting out in web design. Every day brought posts
of useful
It's not really a web standards issue, but the current acceptable
standard for email list servers it to trap 'out of office' messages
and /dev/null them with extreme prejudice.
If the current list software can not do this, perhap it too should be
/dev/null'd.
I am subscribed to dozens of email
Personally, I don't mind deleting the few emails (relatively) that are
out-of-office replies. If I did, I would probably just set up a filter
since I'm using Gmail (and I'm pretty sure most popular email clients
support advanced filters as well). I find that the very small amount of
time it takes
yes - it is no big deal as an individual act, but in aggregate
contributes to the advere side of the S:N ratio. The fact that it is
demonstrably totally unnecessary makes it all the more irritating.
Yes, I could write a filter to catch these messages, but this is the
21st century, there are email