On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Gary Thornock wrote: > One more tip: Train your spam filter to catch messages about > excessively active topics (Linux vs. Gnu/Linux comes to mind.) > That way, your UUG mail folder is left with mostly only the > interesting stuff. :)
What I want to know is, what do those who hate the "excessively active topics" actually read? As far as I can tell, there are two types of posts to the UUG: excessively active, mostly relatively off-topic [if such a thing exists], flame-war-type threads ... and questions: "How do I do such-and-such?" in RedHat or Debian or PHP or SQL or whatever. Looking at the archives for February, it seems that those are the only two types of posts, plus a few emails about club officers and club meetings. So what do these long-flamey-thread-haters actually read?! Do they just consider the UUG-list to be just a free ask-a-question-get-an-answer source? Or is there some point to the list that I'm totally missing? ... ~ ross [who just can't help but start flamewars] -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
