> ... > >http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ > >If you want to give up on this list, I usually recommend > folks to head > >over to Fedora Forum because user lists don't scale even under best > >conditions. A web forum is better able to organize topics, > flame wars > >are much better controlled, while off-topic drivel is easily moved to > >where it belongs. > > Also consider Gmane, which makes lists into News (like Usenet > News). Bad > threads are easily and cheaply ignored that way. I don't use > Gmane, but > there have been posts in the past few months about how to do > it; they can > be googled on with site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list gmane. > > (Personally, I just skip over the bad threads, much the same > way I skip > over spam. My old Eudora makes that easy and fast, and I > think it's safer > than trying to set up filters, which are another way to skip > bad threads.) I am forced to use MS Outlook here at work and I use Thunderbird at home. Both have the option of grouping by thread. In Tbird View->Sort by->Threaded turns this on. This makes it very easy to pitch what I do not wish to look at. Bob Styma
