Re: New Computer

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Peter Connolly wrote:
Bruce, I don't think you get it. Karl is one of those short-wave junkies (see the call letters in his signature), and as such the act of communicating is the thing of interest, not the content of the communication. As far as I can tell, Karl has no unpublished thoughts, no matter how banal. Let's pray he never discovers Twitter....

And even if the Fedora maillist wasn't high-volume, many of us listen in on many maillists. So to see so much noise being generated by a few individuals is annoying at best. I agree with Robert that this is the type of noise level that belongs on a blog so that the masochistic few can tune in if they want/need to. But who listens to us?

And Richard, if that's been tried and it "didn't take," I think that's the indictment you need to listen to. Few of us care about this kind of endless blather.

Finally, Todd, since it's obvious that Karl's prattle will never end, I'd be interested if you ever got that thread-killer working...


On 8/26/07, *bruce* <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    I haven't seen all the 'msgs' in a given karl thread, but the ones
    I have
    seen tend to be from someone who's trying to get a better
    understanding of
    how things work....

    So, exactly what is the issue????

    If you don't want to look at a given msg, the delete key does work
    pretty
    well... and if you really think you're getting into a situation
    where your
    email is just getting too damn swamped with 'garbage'/useless
    emails.. you
    can always outsource to someone and have them filter your email!!!

    peace..


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    Karl Larsen wrote:
    > Todd Zullinger wrote:
    >> Richard England wrote:
    >>
    >>> That approach has been tried, Robert.  It didn't "take".   I
    believe
    >>> this IS the blog, now.
    >>>
    >>
    >> Karl blogs to /dev/null on my system.  It seems to be working out
    >> quite well. :)
    >>
    >> (If only I could be bothered to whip up a procmail recipe to
    also drop
    >> any thread started by his blog software^W^Wemail program to
    /dev/null
    >> as well.  So far, I haven't taken the time to do that.)
    >>
    >>
    >    If you can't find an automatic way to kill my messages I
    suggest you
    > find the delete key and use it.
    >

    Actually Karl, the problem is not deleting your messages. The
    problem is
    deleting the threads (initiated by your mails), with all the noise
    that
    they generate, automatically :-)

    Wonder what the Thunderbird folks should do?

    later,
    Rogue
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The "indictment" that I should listen to.....smooth phrase... meaning I should not have continued the thread? I ascribe to a philosophy that says that everyone who speaks may have something worthy to listen to. So I have not, as yet, attempted to filter any of Karl's or any other postings. Karl adds to this group when he has an issue that he follows through to the end and reports on what the fix or bug was. But as Michael Schwendt points out, the lack of etiquette or any attempt to fit in with the perhaps ad hoc process used on this list makes his posting disruptive and makes me start to consider a kill file. I hope Karl continues to explore Linux, I hope he continues to contribute to this group, but I would also hope that he would listen more and contribute where it is beneficial and not just add chafe to the wheat.

And by the way, if you want to check it out, I suspect my "blather quotient" is really pretty low here. Almost to the point of being a lurker. So my apologies if my frustration has continued a thread that you wished would die but my frustration level over came my discretion and, unlike the other 20 odd times, I hit the return key instead of the delete key. I'll return to lurking.

I probably should delete this one, too,...but....

~~R

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