Bob Young wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: >> Bob Young wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I just honestly don't see the any cause of major inconvenience >>> or damage (aka "mess") here. I'm sure that there must be examples of >>> threads that were completely "on topic" but you personally were not >>> interested in, obviously you dealt with those threads in some fashion. >>> Why is it so difficult to deal with the occasional OT thread the same >>> way, especially when it's clearly marked? >>> >>> It's not like the list is overrun with OT threads, nor do I see any >>> indication that the list is likely to be overrun with OT messages in >>> the future. >>> >>> >> >> >> There is no major problem. It's that I (for example) just lost my >> interest in the "slaveryware drift" some time ago and now I find it >> annoying to see "there are 3 new messages in AMD64" and to discover they >> are "oh..in that thread again". So I mark the thread as read and resume >> with previous occupation. If I had a simple way to ignore the thread and >> check it at will, say once a week, it would be perfect. >> >> Here we can see one of the advantages of the web forums over the mailing >> lists - in case like this the moderators in a web forum could just >> change the title of the thread and move it into some "chit-chat" >> category, dedicated for OTs. >> >> > Okay, fair enough, but how exactly how and why is that so different > from 3 new messages showing up that are "on topic" but that you > personnally have no interest in reading? In that case wouldn't the end > result be exactly the same namely that you would "discover they are > "oh..about that subject" then you would mark the thread as read and > resume with previous occupation." Unless I'm missing something, the > *only* difference is whether the topic qualifies as being in a > particular and somewhat subjective catagory. > > Given your opinion I'm curious as to why you would change the subject, > and in so doing defeat the efforts of the people who might have been > filtering on the "slaveryware drift" subject line. > > BTW For everyone else out there....feel free to post something on > topic, this OT thread is already very near it's natural death, some on > topic posts will probably put the final nail in the coffin. >
The difference is that normally "on topic" threads (including those which are of no interest to me) die relatively fast - OT's question, several answers, a few clarifications and OT's final thanks while this one became enormous. ;-) All I'm saying is I just wish I had that feature to ignore the thread for later viewing. It is my opinion that filtering serves different purposes even it could be used for replacement of "ignore". I repeat again - the thread's fine by me. I can even say there was a thing I liked very much before I stopped reading the messages in the "slaveryware drift". It was very nice to see that despite the different positions no one lost his manners. -- [email protected] mailing list
