> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:23:33PM -0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > >If you understand _nothing_ discussed on a mailing list, there's no > >point in subscribing. Similarly if you understand _everything_. You > >can always delete the messages which you consider beyond your > >intellect, or beneath contempt. Personally I like the range we have > >at present. > > Yes -- that is my opinion too. I skim quite a lot, though ;-) Personally, I really hate all mailing lists. I was on one once where somebody misused the system, and everybody (at once) complained by emailing a complaint about the post to the base address. Pretty soon people started complaining about the complaints, saying the "huge traffic could be avoided if you had never complaind." Before long, someone thought it would be funny to send a 3MB attachment to everyone, and soon others followed. Now, I know the intellegence level here is __much__ higher, but I didn't join for almost 2 years, because of my hatred of such groups. I'm sure this format is keeping many people away (especially the more experienced netizens). It seems a newsgroup is such a better medium for discussions like this. Then, if I go on vacation for a month, I won't have to unsubscribe to keep my INBOX from overflowing. Also, a newsgroup will allow newbies to read through old posts and see what types of question are asked. This is really the only way to keep the same questions from being asked over and over. But, most of all, I want threading. If I have a K7 processor (I do), I might not want to read about every bugfix in v.21, because it isn't going to affect me. The ability to skip threads is extremely powerful. Oh, and did I mention that keeping my own archive of messages is really eating my disk space? Instead of 50 people saving the same message to read later, it should just be kept on a newsgroup server, so that if I need to refer to it later, I just download it again. -aron _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
