Grant Robinson wrote: > With the off-topic threads recently (and the complaints about them), I > have come up with what I think is possibly the best solution (and also > one of the more complicated ones). > > The challenge is this (and someone else will need to spearhead this as > I have neither the time to do it, nor the inclination, as a little > off-topicness now and then does not bother me): Write a filter that > emails going to members of PLUG will be run through. It would check > to make sure the email is on-topic (this would of course not be 100% > fool proof, and would probably need to either be a) trained, b) use > Bayesian filtering or c) both), and if the email is not on-topic, and > does not already have [OT] in the subject line, it would add it > auto-magically. The people who like [OT] threads go on about their > business as usual. Those who dislike them, or just want to skim them > at times, can set up filters (procmail, thunderbird, etc) to put the > [OT] threads in a different folder. > > Of course the ideal situation would be to have everyone voluntarily > mark off-topic posts with [OT] in the subject line, but things which > require changes to human behavior have non-deterministic success > rates. :) > > Grant
I propose just putting a "[OT]" for "On Topic" in the subject of any thread dealing with linux issues. Then you could just set your email reader/filter/procmail whatever to filter out anything that didn't have that OT in it. :-P /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
