On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Derek Carter wrote:
Charles Curley wrote:
here's a third option:
* Use a threaded email client, and collapse and delete any thread that
doesn't interest you. One need not read every word of every email sent to
them. (also try not picking up the phone next time it rings... such a great
feeling, not letting tools overpower us)
I have done a Scientific Study(tm) of all emails on the pluglist since the
"Power Trips" thread at the beginning of the month that prompted people to
start putting [OT] at the beginning of off-topic threads.
There have been approximately 650 emails to go across the pluglist during
that time. Approximately 120 of those emails have been marked [OT]. Of
the 530 or so remaining emails, the vast majority have been on-topic. The
exceptions that I can see are:
a) a few possible offenders in the "perfect MP3 player" thread before it
started getting marked [OT]
b) the "Speedo Alert!" thread, which was not marked [OT]
c) Sasha Pachev's "Mortgage" email and a handful of replies
d) Greg Hill's "I'm glad you're all rich" email and a handful of replies
In other words, if you absolutely hate off-topic threads and have been
procmailing [OT] threads to /dev/null, you will have gotten about 500
on-topic emails and about 30 off-topic emails.
To sum up:
a) I don't think it's too much to ask to have people add [OT] to off-topic
messages. The vast majority of people are already doing it.
b) My wager is that people who are whining about off-topic messages aren't
procmailing [OT] ... if they were, they would hardly see any off-topic
messages at all.
~ Ross
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