On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 06:15:36 -0600, Jess Anderson wrote: > Even for a true geek, the volume of this list is crushing. It seems the initial expectation that the list would "calm down" has not materialised. In a way that's a good thing, since it is indicative of Fedora's popularity, but yes it is heavy going. > It's well past the time when the various Fedora lists should be > reorganized into such departments as announce, setup/install, security, > development, hardware, x-windows, and so forth. IME that just leads to more off-topic posting, since many can't seem to (or don't bother trying to) figure out which is the appropriate list. > In the meantime, I've found it *very* helpful to dump the emailed > traffic to /dev/null Probably better to turn it off in the list prefs, rather than /dev/null it. Cuts down unnecessary .Net traffic. > and instead read the list with my newsreader through the news.gmane.org MeToo® > Top-posters and thread-stealers are selfish morons. Not always, mostly they are just ignorant. There was a recent post here where someone asked "What is 'top posting'", and he was being serious. I guess we can thank Microsoft (mainly) for indoctrinating an entire generation with their warped pseudo-standards. Stick with GMame, don't feed the trolls, and be happy. - K.
