On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:21 AM -0400 Beej-in-GA <bryan-smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would, however, like to point out that there are on most keyboards a key called delete. The purpose of this is to get rid of unwanted things.
This presumes that there's zero cost to acquiring and filtering.
not to mention the fact that a lot of folks might scan the postings and delete simply by subject field, and a poorly-chosen subject field might fake one into starting to read a posting that turns out to be worthless to them.
i have a simple solution to that -- i just delete postings whose subject field isn't clear and unambiguous. that means *every* posting that does not have a subject field, or that contains phrases like "help!" or "urgent!" or "please read!". and, in particular, those that think they're being cute by posting to a worldwide technical list and introducing themselves with the subject "hi".
grrrr .....
rday
