On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:41, Quickbrownfox wrote: > ... > Perhaps another list or forum might be created for the purpose of this > discussion.
This has already been tried (ask Jake about it), and it doesn't seem to help much. Perhaps a better solution would be to insist that all off-topic posts be marked OT in the subject and those who aren't interested in reading them can skip or filter them at their own discretion. Even if you can't use procmail you can use an email client that lets you filter based on strings in the subject line. There have been The problem is that I am not interested in subscribing to a mailing list to discuss these off-topic subjects (and neither are you I'd guess), but I don't mind (heck, it's even nice sometimes) hearing what my friends think about things that aren't UNIX related. It would be even cooler to implement a bayesian filter (managed by the list-admin) to catch off-topic posts on the server and tag them automatically (something like how SpamAssassin tags spam, in the headers). Hans has been talking about that for a while now, but neither of us is an officer anymore. - Andrew ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
