Top Post?
/I keed. I hate this thread myself but I couldn't resist. //ahh more noise ratio.
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
On May 17, 2005, at 5:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perhaps it's time clamav-users be split into clamav-help and clamav-discussion. something like that maybe.
but the list is sagging under the weight of all this metadiscussion. am i the only one growing weary of not just meta-discussion, but meta-meta-discussion?
There are so many other things to be weary of. Is it really worth the time to fight and complain about a large number of messages with the same subject line, handily threaded, from a non-forged source address?
I mean...I'm on another mailing list that gets over a hundred messages a day. I love it when there's a thread that I'm not participating in on that one...one delete gets rid of all the messages stored in that thread all at once. More than that, I'm already filtering my mailing list messages so they're contained reliably in subfolders to store out of sight until I'm ready to look through the messages.
All that, as opposed to, say, the spam that may or may not be getting accurately filtered, and may or may not be taking up space in my inbox, about stuff I never want to read and unlike mailing lists can't unsubscribe from.
Also, if I ignore the thread, it sooner or later goes away on it's own. I can't tell you how many times I've deleted and filtered messages to enlarge my member or get bigger boobs and yet they *just keep coming*. Amazing. But threads on mailing lists? In the worst case scenario, the annoying topic just flares up every couple of months.
But that's just my viewpoint. I mean, I get more annoyed by people that top-post, or can't seem to get their mail client to put the right information into their "your name" or "reply-to" fields than people who get overinvolved in an inflammatory thread in a mailing list, where pleas to end the thread end up actually prolonging the thread...
Again. Just my view. *shrug* People will do what they want to do anyway. My users have taught me this fact of life :-)
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