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

En réponse à Costentin Cornomorus :


>As for raising the message limit, that probably
>wouldn't be a bad idea.
No, if you want me out of the list of course...

>  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.
Only problem: how do you choose which threads you want to delete? Sorry, 
but seen the average length of posts here, skimming through 100 titles only 
to choose which posts to delete and which not (with the big chance that you 
actually delete something interesting and sometimes even directed to you!), 
and then only reading the posts you kept ends up taking more time than just 
reading all the posts. If you raise the message limit, it makes even more 
messages to skim through, and the time spent on it grows just as much. This 
deleting idea just doesn't work, and I have experience in it. It's just 
quicker to read everything, since most posts don't take more than a few 
seconds to read (the same time it would take to read the title and decide 
whether to keep the post or not. And if you decide to keep it, you still 
have to read it!).

>  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.
Still doesn't mean that raising the limit is a good idea.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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