On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:30:17AM EDT, Wayne Topa wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > > > Well, if people use [OT] on the subject I don't think there is any serious > > > problem. > > > > > > > Whom are you kidding? Some of us pay by the amount of bandwidth used. All > > the OT threads do cost us money. Moreover, there is the cost of archiving > > all these discussions which are not relevant to debian project. > >
Yeah, right. Ever checked the actual bandwidth of an entire OT thread as compared with a single commercial web page with just a half a dozen jpeg's .. tiff's and media flash stuff..? Mountains out of molehills. And as Wayne says below if you must be 100% technical in your mailing list adventures, OT threads give you an excellent opportunity to improve you mail filtering skills. > > There is an easy way to prevent getting in a tizzy over all of the OT > mail. Dump it. That way you don't get upset, don't offend anyone, > and keep your blood pressure down. > > I'm too old to bother with it so I just have murx, delete it at the Pop > server. It's a lot better then creating a new OT thread about all the > OT posts that don't interest you. > > Murx makes it so easy I only have to read a few OT posts, then add a > line to one of my filter files. > > DENY = "^Subject:.*Woohooo! Dell + Linux" > DENY = "^Subject:.*Which OS?" > DENY = "^Subject:.*non-Debian" > DENY = "^Subject:.*dumb query" > DENY = "^Subject:.*Politics" > DENY = "^Subject:.*XP OEM" > DENY = "^Subject:.*OEM or Retail" > DENY = "^Subject:.*sponge burning*" > DENY = "^Subject:.*OT." > > I don't complain about what I don't see. > > Just my .02 cents. Live and let live. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]