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Re: On blocking the list (was Re: viruses after the downtime?)

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24
--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:

> I would also help if more people followed Ray > Brown's example: reply to several > messages about the same topic in one post. That > can save lots of bandwidth too.
But only if you're answering to several messages in the same thread, within the same subject line. I sort mail by subject line - if it's a thread that a) I've been involved in or b) a new thread looks interesting, I keep it and read it. Otherwise, it gets filed. Ray does a good job at replying within the subject header; but not everyone that sends mass replies does (especially digest responders). If I can't find what I'm looking for in a digest reply or in one of Ray's answers, it too gets filed. And while I commend him for the effort at copying and pasting - I prefer not to take/waste the time required to do that. I have a fairly limited time in which to read and respond to events here. If I take up a lot of time copying content from here to an editor then back again as a real message, then I have less time to do actual reading and responding. As for raising the message limit, that probably wouldn't be a bad idea. There's no reason why anyone here has to lbaour under the notion that we _must_ read each and every message in the queue. Feel free to delete messages or threads as you please. If what I have to say doesn't interest you, I won't feel bad if you delete my messages! If you can pare down the daily allotment of 100 messages to 30 or 40 of interest, you'll save a lot of time and have more time to devote to those interesting topics. Padraic. ===== blaženi ništii duxom&#1100; &#283;ko t&#283;x&#1098; est&#1098; c&#283;sar&#1100;stvo nebes&#1100;skoe! -- Mt.5:3 -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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