I'd like to talk to you about the cat I had when I was young. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Guys, > > I really love this mailing list. For everything, ranging from highly-geekly > discussions to humour and digressions about how to pronounce "ye" in Old > English, through dissertations of the patents world or Scala. Really. I'm > not using any blacklist for topics or senders; my only problem is time (not > only for this mailing list, but for all my email), so when I'm in time > shortage I just decimate threads, deciding that I won't follow those having > topics that are not in my primary interests - or sometimes sacrificing those > that are, but I really can't follow. OTOH I usually commit to read all the > messages in a thread that I've started to track, much more if I even > participated in it. > > So, you should understand the bit of frustration e.g. returning home after > five days of no-connections, and finding that most of the new messages in > the thread "Excellent article about Google's..." were either about Old > English "ye", or JavaScript and double usage. But I did discover a useful, > in-topic contribution about FOSS, patents and standards, that I would have > missed if I deleted everything on the spot. > > I'm not asking to restrict the range of arguments here - wouldn't be just > possible to apply the old, sane rules of email? Such as changing the subject > when a digression is no more temporary (e.g. "JavaScript and doubles - was: > Re: Excellent article....")? Thanks :-) > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > >
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