On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:28:32AM -0700, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > 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). I didn't suggest to block thread unrelated messages, I just say that I won't read many of them because I use "kill-thread" very often. If your message was unrelated to the thread, I'm very sorry, but you should learn to post in that case. > 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. Maybe not in your part of the world, but there are people that still effectively have 300 baud lines. A flat-rate high-bandwidth internet connection is certainly not a world standard. > 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. What's wrong with an error message saying "Please use a subject line"? That can hardly be confusing, I think we can assume at least basic knowledge of the English language by people using this list. > 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. I also manage to read the >1000 emails I receive a day, but that was not my point. My point is that if you want your message to be read, you should a) use a relevant subject and b) don't post thread unrelated messages. (And no, just changing the subject in a thread does NOT create a new thread). 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 Netherlands 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/
