[101681] in RedHat Linux List
Re: , and other animals -- Stupid Mikey chimes in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Sat Nov 28 15:07:16 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:02:01 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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Wendell Cochran wrote:
>
> flags are impracticable & unenforceable.
And a matter of the poster's opinion. One thing that I've noticed since
"OT" and "OFF" started appearing at the beginnings of subject lines on
this list is that the designation is applied arbitrarily according to
the poster's idea of what constitutes off topic. If I tried to filter
my mail based on those tags, I would almost certainly miss stuff that
I'm interested in, while a certain amount of "garbage" would still get
through. It is not inconceivable to me that someone would post a
message to this list with the subject line "<OFF> Security hole detected
in 2.0.36", on the grounds that it's a kernel issue and not a RedHat
issue.
I delete most of this list unread. I use IMAP so that I don't have to
spend the time downloading the stuff I'm not going to read. At least
when I guess wrong about what to get rid of, it's my own wrong guess and
not somebody else's.
The only thing that still bugs me are subject lines like "Hello," "A
Question" or "Re: RedHat Digest #4077", because they don't mean
anything.
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