begin quoting John Oliver as of Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:17:14PM -0700: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:28:04PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > Linux professionals know how to set up killfiles, or use threaded > > mailreaders. > > That gets old when the Subject: constantly morphs, and killfiling all of > the participants of a given OT thread will result in killing 95% of the > "legit" traffic as well.
Morphing subjects have a good chance of ending up with a [kooler] tag, which suffices. And killfiling the major participants of an OT thread surely is less drastic than unsubscribing entirely, which kills 100% of the "legit" traffic as well. > Mike is right... the OT stuff has gotten out of control. ...just as it does a couple of times a year. I suppose that we should troll the archives and get some data. No doubt it goes OT far more often than I recall... > I couldn't > resist throwing my $.02 in as well, so I'm just as guilty as anyone > else. We're human, most of us. Stuff like this will happen from time to time. > Maybe jackbooted Fascist thug moderation wouldn't be a terrible > idea... :-) I'm sure we can set up kplug-moderated, and you can be the jackbooted fascist thug who gets to do the moderation. We'll see which list ends up with more participants... -- I don't want that job. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
