Unfortunately, this is true. My answer is to autorespond to the culprit, reminding them that they should not set their out of office systems to reply to everything that comes in, and then to delete the message from my own inbox. On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > Mike Burger schrieb: > > >>Which almost is exactly what Joshua said: if dumb subjects like > >>"X-list digest", but also "no subject" or "question" or > >>"help".... were trashed by the mailing list software, and *that* > >>software trained the author sending to him a message saying "message > >>rejected because of meaningless subject"... the list would be better. > >> > >> > >Sure...and the complaints that the Red Hat lists, and/or the Linux > >community, are all crotchety, or unfriendly, or unhelpful, etc, ad > >infinitum, would persist. > > > > this will persist too > ---- > > Received: from ALLEGAN-Message_Server by perrigo.com > with Novell_GroupWise > X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.7.1 > > > Subject: Re:Shrike-list digest, Vol 1 #508 - xx msgs (I will be out of > the office until Tuesday, June 24th.) > > Subject: Re:Shrike-list digest, Vol 1 #509 - xx msgs (I will be out of > the office until Tuesday, June 24th.) > > Subject: Re:Shrike-list digest, Vol 1 #510 - xx msgs (I will be out of > the office until Tuesday, June 24th.) > > Subject: Re:Shrike-list digest, Vol 1 #511 - xx msgs (I will be out of > the office until Tuesday, June 24th.) > > Subject: Re:Shrike-list digest, Vol 1 #512 - xx msgs (I will be out of > the office until Tuesday, June 24th.) > > ... > > > > I will be out of the office until Tuesday, June 24th. > ---- > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > here a some rules in this game called open-source, gpl, ... > > people who say "that the Red Hat lists, and/or the Linux community, are > all crotchety, or unfriendly, or unhelpful, ..." > are mostly not willing to play their role in this game. > > you can be sure, > they will come back some day and then they will play > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
