On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:31:34PM -0500, Bernie Cosell wrote: > For all of the last several golf matches, essentially *all* of the > traffic specific to a single tournament has been on a very small number > of threads [to their credit, the golfers have stuck to reasonable and > consistent 'subject' lines rather than lots of random non-threaded ones]. > That means that in almost any mail client, it is just a couple of key > strokes to 'kill' a thread or two and make the entire 'tournament' > essentially cease to exist [as far as you're concerned].
It would, if all the traffic came at once. But usually, those threads last for over a week. Most people do read mail more than once a week. And even if you go through the trouble of setting up a perfect killfile entry, you still need to download the stuff. > None of the traffic on the list is all that high [what... ten messages a > day, if that much, for a particular tournamet??] so I'd say -- it is all It's more than 10 message a day. Recently, I killed 143 golf related messages on fwp after not being able to read mail for a few days. > fun for *some* of us, so keep it on fwp, just be careful with subject "some" being the keyword. I'd say that because it's fun for only *some* of us, a separate list is in order. > lines and let folk use their mail clients to 'tune out' what they choose > not to want to see [I can only say that that's what I did...at some point > the discussion of one of the TPRs got too involved in minutiae I wasn't > following so I killed the thread and I don't even know [or care] how much > longer it went on..]. Now, if I could place filters at my ISP, I'm all for it. But since that's out of the question, I don't go for the "tune out" reasoning. Abigail
