David Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:10:58PM -0700, SJS wrote:
begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at
06:04:54PM -0700:
[snip]
SJS doesn't like GPL so therefore you *must* be wrong.
QED
Welcome to my killfile.
Do people really use killfiles like this? In my mailinglist career, I
can
think of one or two incidents that really warranted a killfile, and it
really needed to be thread based because the persons posts generated so
many replies that I could read all of their messages anyway.
Most of the time, it seems more the equivalent of sticking your
fingers in
your ears and singing loudly. I guess there are a few times where
that is
an appropriate response in person, but it isn't common.
David
The closest I come to that is reading a few posts into a thread,
sometimes just to find out what the original post in the thread was
about. After I determine that there is not much benefit for me, I
generally just hit delete on successive postings in that thread.
Sometimes, I follow a thread that has no benefit for me just because
there are quite often surprising nuggets buried in there like hidden
treasure. But when (like now) I have 241 unread messages (originally
997 downloaded about 72 hours ago) in kplug alone (not counting
-kooler), I tend to ignore more than I normally would. This particular
thread has kept my interest even though there is not much appeal to me
about the thread itself beyond the first several posts.
--
Ralph
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Since all Joshua needed was extra sunlight, and most ancients believed
the sun moves, not the Earth, a human author of a fictitious account
would only have needed to refer to the sun stopping. [Joshua commanded
both the sun *and* the moon to stop. So, how did he know?]
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