On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:45, Ross Werner wrote: > 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]
Some of the "excessive" topics are actually interesting in the beginning, but when they devolve into 20 or more posts a day all repeating the same thing, it's not interesting anymore. It's beating a dead horse, and it's filling up my mailbox. (Even my paid Yahoo account still has a storage limit, and I'm pretty close to the limit.) I try to make a point of not complaining about it most of the time, though. When these long run-on topics show up and get out of hand, they're easy enough to filter or delete. What's left afterward? Here are a few recent topics: "72 Hour Sale" "Tips for dealing with the UUG mailing list" :) "Opinions on mail server setup" "paf and wine (and cheese)" "Introduction to designing backups" etc. (BTW, the name is Linux, not GNU/Linux :) ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
