Delirium wrote: > Maybe I'm unusual in treating large mailing lists as if they were > FidoNet or Usenet discussion forums, but the idea of people being > bothered by long threads they don't care about, individuals whose posts > they don't like, etc., is strange to me. Isn't that easily handled on > the client side? Killfile individual posters, delete/filter entire > threads, etc. Do most people use clients where that's unreasonably > difficult? > > It does require *some* community standards to enable it. For example, it > really helps the client-side filtering if people choose meaningful > subject lines, and change subject lines when threads have drifted to new > topics. But it's a fairly minimal set of things that have to be > centrally enforced. It certainly seems easier than trying to come up > with a centrally enforced set of standards that will simultaneously make > everyone happy! > Yes, and maybe the solution would be a link to a set of instructions about how to more effectively manage one's mailing lists.
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