On 5/19/07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > M. Fioretti wrote: > > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money > > >every time these characters rerun their show > > > > > > > > It's called IMAP - the bandwidth and time to download headers > > is negligible, even over a dial-up. > > > There are also multiple solutions which allow downloading just > headers and deleting messages from the server over a POP > connection. I've been guilty of facilitating some OT'ness since I joined the list a couple weeks ago. I have been amazed at the sheer volume of it, though, and have lately been mostly trying to stick only to on-topic things I could help with.
For which I, for one, am grateful. The bandwidth argument, while I agree with those who object to all the OT nonsense, is really bogus. I subscribe to debian-user through a gmail account (which anyone can get these days), and so read it (or don't) at a website. The OT threads are obvious and easy to delete, and cost me nothing in bandwidth. That said, there do seem to be a fair number of self-indulgent, self-important, opinionated pundits using this list for their own, irrelevant proselytizing of one view or another. But I only know that because, on occasion, sort of like looking at a car wreck, I find myself opening one of those OT posts. If you open one by accident, delete and move on. Or so I advise (knowing there are deaf ears out there). Patrick
