Re: Debian User List

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:30:17AM EDT, Wayne Topa wrote:
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi(kamaraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:

Well, if people use [OT] on the subject I don't think there is any serious
problem.


Whom are you kidding? Some of us pay by the amount of bandwidth used. All
the OT threads do cost us money. Moreover, there is the cost of archiving
all these discussions which are not relevant to debian project.


Yeah, right.

Ever checked the actual bandwidth of an entire OT thread as compared
with a single commercial web page with just a half a dozen jpeg's ..
tiff's and media flash stuff..?

Mountains out of molehills.

And as Wayne says below if you must be 100% technical in your mailing
list adventures, OT threads give you an excellent opportunity to improve
you mail filtering skills.


There is an easy way to prevent getting in a tizzy over all of the OT
mail. Dump it. That way you don't get upset, don't offend anyone,
and keep your blood pressure down.

I'm too old to bother with it so I just have murx, delete it at the Pop
server. It's a lot better then creating a new OT thread about all the
OT posts that don't interest you.

Murx makes it so easy I only have to read a few OT posts, then add a
line to one of my filter files.

DENY = "^Subject:.*Woohooo! Dell + Linux"
DENY = "^Subject:.*Which OS?"
DENY = "^Subject:.*non-Debian"
DENY = "^Subject:.*dumb query"
DENY = "^Subject:.*Politics"
DENY = "^Subject:.*XP OEM"
DENY = "^Subject:.*OEM or Retail"
DENY = "^Subject:.*sponge burning*"
DENY = "^Subject:.*OT."

I don't complain about what I don't see.

Just my .02 cents.

Live and let live.

Thanks,
cga


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