On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:43 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > On 27 Mar 2008 21:50:58 -0700, Dennis Kibbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mail clients, like Evolution & T'bird are not designed to handle mail lists > > where you receive a large volume of mail that can clog your inbox and which > > is often off topic. > > Dennis, Herein lies the problem- the sematics of 'off topic'. 'Off > topic' has an entirely subjective use. For those who subscribe to > this list to trade System Administration tips, this thread is *Off > Topic*.
Is this a list to trade SysAdmin tips? I understood that its purpose was to promulgate Linux, provide mutual aid and instructions for user new and old. Is PLUG generating such a large volume of mail that may subject Linux mail clients to turn turtle? Harold > > > > > One way to get around this problem is to read the list with a newsreader > > like pan or gnus (Emacs). You can do this at www.gmane.org by subscribing > > to gmane.org.user-groups.linux.phoenix. > > There are lots of tools available for mitigating the problems you, > and many others before you, have identified. Blogging, Digg, Social > Networking and many more are established methods of managing the > problem of signal-to-noise ratios on internet based communications > media. While I am not really that familiar with gmane, it is hardly > the dominant solution for this class of problems. > > What confuses the hell out of me is why have all this legal > overhead when these usage scenarios can be enforced with technology > rather than stipulating acceptable behavior guidelines such as you > have just done. I mean, this is a group for computer programmers > right? > > "NO TOP POSTING!!!!!" > > Best, > > Joshua Zeidner > > - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/ > > > > > > > A news reader will let you easily "score" articles so those that you want > > to read rise to the top and those you don't want to read will either sink > > to the bottom or not show up at all. Articles also "expire" so that your > > news inbox is self-emptying. Your normal mail inbox is reserved for, well, > > mail. > > > > You still need to subscribe to the actual list via the PLUG site if you > > want to post, but you can elect to receive the digest rather than > > individual posts and then put yourself on "vacation hold" so even that > > doesn't show up. > > > > If you need to contact the administrator of the list that is best done > > thought the appropriate email address rather than posting to the list. > > Requests to unsubscribe and other purely admin matters are handled through > > this email address which is different than the one used to post or the > > mailman page and not by posting to the list proper. > > > > Dennisk > > -- > > "Free as in Freedom" > > Free Software Foundation > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
