Re: We can halve volume by not allowing nondevelopers to post
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 04:14:40PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:00:45 -0800, Oscar Levi wrote:
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> >These things help, but I don't have time to wade through d-devel with adequate
> >care.
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> What is, exactly, "adequate care"? I don't use a threading mail client,
> I sort by subject and then date/time on my client and, just coming off a
> 3-day road trip, could clear out the two Debian lists I'm on in about 35-45
> minutes tops. Most of the threads are of no interest to me. I don't even
> need to read the first message. Subjects are quite accurate on mailing
> lists. So the whole process is giving the list a once over, marking what I
> don't want to read as deleted, then going back. out of the ~200 a day I get
> from both lists I *read* maybe 5-10, respond to less unless I am in a thread
> in which case that goes up slightly.
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> That is not that bad. So I'm curious what your definition is of
> "adequate care" so we can define what the possible extremes are and try to
> find some common ground.
I'd read more of the list if it didn't take 30 minutes just to delete
the messages. The point is simple. Reading one out of 200 messages
doesn't constitute being 'involved'. Spending an 30 minutes a day
deleting mail isn't very rewarding.
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