[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels

[lug]

<beer induced flame>
It's a sad day on the lug when a thread about the format/construction of
emails generates more traffic than say, someone wanting to know about
how linux could be used to do creative things like music, or maybe USB
stuff.

I'm knowingly contributing to the flamewar, but, jesus, isn't there
something better to get pissy about?

I've been on mailing lists and the internet for years. And the perennial
issue for the beards is the format of the mail.

I'm sorry, but this is f**king boring. Mailing list protocol is
something that shouldn't need to be discussed.

Yeah sure HTML mail is evil. But hey - there's bigger issues at stake
here.

get over it. nuff said.

</beer induced flame>

Sorry 'bout that crew, but seriously, based on the traffic of the list -
you gotta wonder about priorities....It just had to be said.

peace.

jamie


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 21:41, Tony Wills wrote:
> At 19:55 30/10/03 +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> >...
> >My other peeve is stealing threads.
> >
> >If you want to send a new message to the (or any) list, please don't do it by
> >replying to someone else's. It screws up the threads in a thread-enabled MUA,
> >making it very likely that something will get deleted or ignored by accident.
> >...
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't considered that, I'll keep it in 
> mind. I often start a new topic to mailing lists by replying to something 
> in that mailing list, saves worrying about getting the address right (hard 
> to keep up when people keep moving servers ;-) ... of course I edit the 
> subject-line ... but of course the other 100 header lines are normally 
> hidden from view ...
> 
> ... why isn't someone complaining about all those headers ...
> I especially loved the X-Spam-Report: of 20 lines that had detected too 
> many !!! in the subject line (of a message with 4 lines of actual content).
> 
> But interesting that Richard started a new topic (stealing threads) by 
> stealing a thread about a different topic, and not even changing the 
> subject line ;-)
> 
> ...
> 
> Have you ever noticed that threads raving about Noise to signal ratios on 
> newsgroups and mailing lists seem to generate more noise than the original 
> thing that was being complained of ..
> 
> I know, I know, I shouldn't have been tempted to join in :-(
> 
> 
> PS why do people put disclaimers about things being just their opinion ... 
> why don't we just assume every post is just the authors opinion unless they 
> are quoting someone else or present their expert qualifications on the 
> subject before they start ;-) ;-) :p
> 
> PPS Now, if I could only think of something to say about linux ... (huh! 
> there we are, I got it back on topic :-)
> 
> 
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