Forgive my presumptuousness, but this seems like a really silly thing to block at the server. It has been mentioned that such a change would serve to help folks because their post wouldn't be ignored, however it seems to me that this smells more like certain folks not wanting to have to filter their mailbox themselves, and getting the server to do it instead (thus forcing their wants or needs on the entire group). Might I suggest that we are no longer in the days of 10mb hard drives, 300baud modems, and 33mhz computers, and that it does not take an exorbitant amount of energy, bandwidth, cpu, or effort to filter one's own mailbox. I should also note that users who send an email without a subject and summarily recieve a notice from the server asking them to send again, might only be confused and leave. I recieve on the order of 1,800 emails per day, being on many mailing-lists, and I still manage to at least glance over every one to see if it's relevant. I know that you might lose precious seconds per day by having to go through this troublesome task, but this was a choice you made when you signed up for a list. Sometimes you just can't have your cake and eat it too. roo aka. Benjamin Krueger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Mouw" <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL> To: "John Levon" <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Cc: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:24 AM Subject: Re: emails with no subjects > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:50:08AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > same goes for people screwing up threading by replying to an unrelated post ... > > drives me fair mad, it does ;) > > AOL! I must be missing quite a lot of those posts because I use the > "kill-thread" button as soon as a thread doesn't interest me anymore. > > > Erik > > -- > J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department > of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, > Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlan ds > Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl > WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ > - > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies > Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ > - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
