> So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that
> with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced.
For a start, I would have to download at least the headers (which are often
several k) in order to filter.
Secondly, International roaming rates are dictaded by the TelCos that the
call gets routed through. When I was in Italy for example, the price was
mainly down to the overhead charged to my provider by TIM (the cellular
carrier for that part of Italy).
Thirdly, you are missing the point completely. Why should hundreds of list
users be inconvenienced for the sake of a handful of inconsiderate
individuals who can't take their off-topic crap to private e-mail?
I signed up to this list for Linux information, and I'm sure that the
majority of the other list members signed up for the same reason. If a user
sends off-topic information to the list then he is effectively SPAMMING the
list. To me, spammers remind me of something I occasionally pick up on my
shoe in the gutter - very unpleasant, especially on a hot day...
There are already a couple of list members who are in my killfile for this
kind of behavior. My fingers are itching to add a few more.
This whole thing reminds me of an occasion when a woman was raped in Central
Park. The general attitude was not condemnation of the evil bastards that
committed the crime, but rather that it was her own fault for walking
through Central Park on her own. Attitudes like that disgust me.
Bandwidth is not currently a problem for me personally as I have a permanent
ADSL connection in my home (as long as I'm in Windoze - the ADSL modem is a
USB version that does not work under Linux, so I'm stuck at 56k for the
Penguin). I'm more concerned about users who may be in the position that I
was a few years ago. Remember too that many countries do not have free
local calls - they get charged by the minute for their on-line time.
Personally, I don't care if you talk about politics, walking your dog, how
to get a few extra horsepower out of your big-block Chevy, or your favorite
lovemaking position. Just don't do it on this list.
I have even offered to set up a seperate list for off-topic posts, as soon
as my system is up full-time. That offer still stands, as soon as I have
the hardware to do it - this machine is being switched between operating
systems too often at the moment.
ObLinux - if anyone knows how to get the above mentioned modem (Efficient
Networks SpeedStream 4060 ADSL, USB interface) to work under Linux, please
let me know...
Regards,
Ozz.
