Peter Connolly wrote:
Bruce, I don't think you get it. Karl is one of those short-wave
junkies (see the call letters in his signature), and as such the act
of communicating is the thing of interest, not the content of the
communication. As far as I can tell, Karl has no unpublished
thoughts, no matter how banal. Let's pray he never discovers Twitter....
And even if the Fedora maillist wasn't high-volume, many of us listen
in on many maillists. So to see so much noise being generated by a
few individuals is annoying at best. I agree with Robert that this is
the type of noise level that belongs on a blog so that the masochistic
few can tune in if they want/need to. But who listens to us?
And Richard, if that's been tried and it "didn't take," I think that's
the indictment you need to listen to. Few of us care about this kind
of endless blather.
Finally, Todd, since it's obvious that Karl's prattle will never end,
I'd be interested if you ever got that thread-killer working...
On 8/26/07, *bruce* <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I haven't seen all the 'msgs' in a given karl thread, but the ones
I have
seen tend to be from someone who's trying to get a better
understanding of
how things work....
So, exactly what is the issue????
If you don't want to look at a given msg, the delete key does work
pretty
well... and if you really think you're getting into a situation
where your
email is just getting too damn swamped with 'garbage'/useless
emails.. you
can always outsource to someone and have them filter your email!!!
peace..
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Karl Larsen wrote:
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Richard England wrote:
>>
>>> That approach has been tried, Robert. It didn't "take". I
believe
>>> this IS the blog, now.
>>>
>>
>> Karl blogs to /dev/null on my system. It seems to be working out
>> quite well. :)
>>
>> (If only I could be bothered to whip up a procmail recipe to
also drop
>> any thread started by his blog software^W^Wemail program to
/dev/null
>> as well. So far, I haven't taken the time to do that.)
>>
>>
> If you can't find an automatic way to kill my messages I
suggest you
> find the delete key and use it.
>
Actually Karl, the problem is not deleting your messages. The
problem is
deleting the threads (initiated by your mails), with all the noise
that
they generate, automatically :-)
Wonder what the Thunderbird folks should do?
later,
Rogue
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The "indictment" that I should listen to.....smooth phrase... meaning I
should not have continued the thread?
I ascribe to a philosophy that says that everyone who speaks may have
something worthy to listen to. So I have not, as yet, attempted to
filter any of Karl's or any other postings. Karl adds to this group
when he has an issue that he follows through to the end and reports on
what the fix or bug was. But as Michael Schwendt points out, the lack
of etiquette or any attempt to fit in with the perhaps ad hoc process
used on this list makes his posting disruptive and makes me start to
consider a kill file.
I hope Karl continues to explore Linux, I hope he continues to
contribute to this group, but I would also hope that he would listen
more and contribute where it is beneficial and not just add chafe to the
wheat.
And by the way, if you want to check it out, I suspect my "blather
quotient" is really pretty low here. Almost to the point of being a
lurker. So my apologies if my frustration has continued a thread that
you wished would die but my frustration level over came my discretion
and, unlike the other 20 odd times, I hit the return key instead of the
delete key. I'll return to lurking.
I probably should delete this one, too,...but....
~~R
