On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have seen the proportion about evenly split. But this is > > the same as the 'Reply-to:' versus no 'Reply-to:' split; about 50-50. > Where likewise the only place I've ever seen complaints are the ones > that don't adjust the reply-to, yet the complaints are always met with > 'it's morally wrong to do that..'. I've seen both; I run several lists here, and I have had more requests to drop the 'reply-to: list' option than to add it back in. Again: it's up to the list owners, and no one else. > >I organize by folders, and kmail allows some really slick > > presentation of those folders, and does the automatic List-Id based > > filing. > Doesn't that mean you have to jump around in the folders whenever a new > message comes in or you want to reply to something? Let me recast that: it means rather than have all new incoming messages obscure the really important non-list incoming messages, I have really important e-mail come into a pretty clean inbox, and when I have a break (like right now) I can, in a subject-oriented manner, read and reply. I find it to be much more efficient to dispose of 60-100 messages in a row on the same subject than to have them all interspersed in my inbox, which needs to stay clean so that important messages get quick dispositions. > I don't have time > for that. I wonder what the statistics for all your replies to this list and the CentOS list would say about your time availability. Or mine, for that matter. > > And I'm getting ready to clean > > it out; the archive will likely be left with less than 1,000 messages > > that have enough meat to be considered worthy of keeping around. > That's why I send it all through gmail... What does gmail have to do with the S/N ratio of this list (note that the 16,000 messages I received in the last month did not include spam, of which over 100,000 messages were dropped)? -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
