why do people keep quitting the list when all they have to do is create a folder for the list, a rule that pipes the messages to that folder, and then you can just paruse the list (or delete them all) whenever you feel like? On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 10/6/05, Robert Jonsson <rj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello people, > > > > being a long time LAU reader it feels a bit wierd to quit the list. Though > > lately the sheer volume of messages is just too much, I can't keep up. SNR > > has seemingly gone down a bit too, though I guess both are signs of > > linux-audio coming of age. > > Before you go, please know one thing and consider another: > > 1) I value your contributions on all of the lists I've seen you on. > Thanks for that. > > 2) Consider a GMail account for list management only. I'll give you > one if you need it. I've been subscribing to the Linux-kernel list for > the last few weeks. Even on the heaviest days it only amounts to 30 or > so conversations. It's very easy to delete 100's of emails and get to > the stuff I want to read. I routinely get about 500 emails a day.480 > of them go away very quickly. > > > Before I leave I have a request concerning the two things I will miss most. > > - Application announcements, please make announcements to the [Announce] also > > so people like me can find out. I think most does, just a reminder ;) > > > > And the most important one. > > - I absolutely applaud the increasing posting of music/sound/noise in here > > lately. I will definitely miss this. I'd be very happy if people made use of > > the [LAM] list: > > http://dis-dot-dat.net/mailman/listinfo/lam_dis-dot-dat.net > > Didn't know about this one so I've just signed up. Thanks. See, once > again you're a helper. > > > > > and posted their pieces there also. For people like me that need to cut down > > on their daily mailinglist-intake it would be a good solution. > > > > Read you later, > > Robert > > Cheers and good life, > Mark >