On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:09:56 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I agree and disagree at the same time. Some of this off-topic stuff is > > quite educational, and sometimes quite funny. > > Yes, I enjoy the first couple of posting sometimes. But after that ... > > > You don't have to read it you know. You see an off-topic thread, just > > delete the whole thread. Of course, you may have a really slow internet > > connection and it takes a while for all the "junk" to come in. In that > > case I pity you. > > I get the digest. This is NECESSARY, see below. > > > I think Tyler is right, there should be another list for "debian-help" > > but I am afraid if that list separates from this one, then a lot of > > people that could really help people, will not subscribe to it. > > Problem here is that some of the Debian lists do not work right. No digest on > a high traffic list means provider mailbox fills and then bounces and then > one is automatically unsubscribed. This is the only one I have been able to > stay on. When its digest was not working, I was kicked off every other day. > > (Yes, if I wanted to leave my computer on 24/7 and pay for a fixed IP, I > could > dispense with the provider's email server, smarthosting and the like and let > my exim4 do the work (which it does quite well). Then again, the /var > partition will fill up producing the same results. So ... let's have fun but > consider onr another and keep things reasonable.) Why not use Gmail (or something similar) for ML traffic? Free (as in beer), close to 3 GB of storage, free POP access. Celejar