err what pop server? I don't have one. a strange assumption. and anyway if you do get your mail via pop, the bandwidth is already wasted getting it to the popserver.
this conversation should now die. try to keep it vaguely on topic people. I see a difference between a "thanks for helping me to get foowhizz working on linux, heres how i finished up doing it" and "thanks for pointing me to an older already OT post that I could have found if I had looked in the archives". Plus whoever it was had their clock set wrong, which annoys very many people. I can't remember who it was because I got so sick of the messages floating to the top of my clug folder (because the date was in the future) that I deleted them. Now those that don't want to play by the rules can unsubscribe. On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:54, Hadley Rich wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:40, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > > This thread is marked OT. If you do not want to read OT messages > > > then either create a filter in your mail client or if you really > > > hate OT messages I can write a script for you to delete all > > > messages from a pop3 server with subjects that have OT in them. > > > > Yes, if the message has 'OT' in the Subject line, you can filter it > > once the message has been delivered to your mailbox--but it's too > > late. The bandwidth has already been wasted. > > As Paul William mentioned above, you can quite easily filter messages > at the POP3 server thus saving your bandwidth. > > Yes, this is a linux mailing list, but it is also a community of > people who are interested in technology. Are you saying that a post > offering free or outlandishly cheap hardware *which could be used for > running linux* does not interest you at all and is a PITA for wasting > your bandwidth? > > I beg to differ. > > hads
