On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: > > If this were a news-group, your messages would still be filling up the > > list and we'd still need to filter out your messages. > > > > How do news-servers help keep the noise level down there? > > We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You > don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread > has 500 messages. Nothing to filter.
emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator. > > People already pointed out that you can do the same with IMAP, that > gmail does the same in the web interface. People that use this > features don't need to complain of to much noise. or pop. Noise is still noise. > > It is the rest that complaints of noise. With having mailing list as > default way of communication this rest is bigger than necessary. End. > nope. Wrong.