"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
>
> "Dominic A. V. Amann" wrote:
> >
> > Although I like mailing lists, I am beginning to see a pattern.
> > A list becomes useful at around 5-20 daily contributions. At
> > around 30+, I glaze over and skip tons of stuff, wishing it
> > would end already. modperl is well over that limit, and I now
> > have to unsubscribe just to keep my day productive. Also, I
> > perceive that signal to noise is diminishing with increasing
> > size.
> >
> > Perhaps it is time to further specialize the list into
> > sub-topics?
>
> Hrmm, rather than divide the list I think it is better to develop
> advanced scan-and-delete techniques for mailing lists. I filter all
> mod_perl mail into one folder. Anything about modules that I don't care
> about, like Embperl, ASP, and Mason goes straight into the trash bin.
> Anything that mentions Apache::Session goes to a special folder. All
> other mails get their subjects read but little else.
I am grateful for the suggestion. One of the problems I am having is
that I don't know enough to know what is relevant at a glance. I am
learning quickly. As a C programmer of some 15 years, and a fan and
programmer of Perl for the last 5 years, I am new to mod_perl. I am
just learning the lexicon, and it seems that, as some have noted,
some bandwidth is taken up by advocacy issues, and a large part of
the rest by very specific mod_perl related (I guess) products such
as Embperl, whatever that is, and ASP, neither of which I know anything
about, and do not know whether I should learn something. I shall find
the FAQ and read that.
>
> Another advantage of this method is that I can deal with mod_perl email
> one a weekly or even monthly basis, instead of daily. Notice how Doug
> MacEachern uses this list. He posts about 50 messages at once, but
> infrequently.
>
> In any case, I think you can deal with it on your end without reducing
> the value of the list for rank newbies.
I tried the filters, and oddly enough, although I have always filtered
mod_perl into its own filter, I just had a mail blurf where about half
the mod_perl stuff went into my regular inbox, thus confounding me
totally.
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