On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:46:56 +0100 Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> This list often has threads that go to 300-400 contributions or more. > After about 20-25 contributions the topic completely changes and is > often completely unrelated to the subject. Quite quickly I think > TL;DR and so simply delete all future messages on that thread even > though this means more than likely missing good contributions. The > mis-match of subject and topic of the contained contribution is > impossible to deal with, so I think why bother? If people would > change the subject field and/or switch to a new thread with a new > subject, it would enable much easier appreciation of the content, and > hence more likely contribution. Very true. I also have to ignore such threads consuming too much time. Interestingly, the same point was today mentioned on #d and my observation is that among all the mailing lists which I follow (via Gmane), only wxwidgets-devel archive (which, btw, contains every comment from the tracker) is close in size to d.D. (wx-devel ~135K messages since year 2000 and d.D has ~160K messages since 2004). Sincerely, Gour -- It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another's duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for to follow another's path is dangerous. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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