The OT stuff is fine. Whether it's marked [OT] or not, I don't really
care. It's not hard to collapse a thread and delete it in Thunderchicken.
My one major complaint with the lists I'm on (here, various WISPA, and
NANOG) is that some people refuse to start a new thread properly. They
will simply do a reply to a message in an existing thread, change the
subject and may or may not even bother wiping out the body. So, in
Thunderchicken at least, it keeps the original thread ID or whatever
header. Which means something I might want to see gets buried in shit I
don't want to see and is deleted. I see this at least every other day or
two. Is it really that difficult to start a new message to af@afmug or
whatever@wispa?
On 12/8/2017 3:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Huh? You do know how to filter based on the OT in the subject line,
right?
It IS an automatic thing if you want it to be. No extra work involved.
We 5 noisy people have been partying in my basement here for 15 years.
Along with several hundred less noisy people.
Feel free to help yourself to the beer, but you can't bitch about the
music.
My record player.
Everybody dance now...
-----Original Message----- From: Dev
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 2:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] alt list?
Right, that’s why they have high/low volume lists in other
communities, separates out the technical from the noise.
There are lots of places to find noise, and few to find some of the
information on this list.
By volume, the white noise just escalates and begets other irrelevant
noise in some sort of asymptotic trend that doesn’t seem worth the
effort to manage to get to what’s of interest, so it becomes a chore
not to round-file the whole list traffic.
Seems like there’s around 5 people generating the noise source, so
relevant to the total number of list members it’s a very, very small
group generating extra work for the other vast majority of
subscribers. If you got these five people in a room and let them talk,
most everyone else would leave to do productive things.
Sure does waste time though.
