[12102] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Nanoseconds and milliseconds: Correcting Dr. Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Carlson)
Thu Mar 26 00:59:53 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:55:05 -0600
From: David Carlson <dcarlson@bridgew.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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I would just like to add a hearty second to Bill Drew's recent suggestion on
the management of Dr. Internet's messages and the use of a filter to effect
the immediate transfer of these messages to the email trash bin. I have used
this approach for the last couple of years (using Eudora Pro's filtering
rules) and it's done wonders for my equanimity.... I heartily recommend it
to others. (Another useful filter I have found is the occurrence of the
characters "Vigdor" in a mail header.)
There is one disadvantage to this approach. I do occasionally feel pangs of
guilt that I am not contributing to the regular warnings and corrections to
the mis-information that goes on for the overall good. No question that this
is useful work. But I am heartened by the fact that there seems to be no
shortage of others who take on this task (some a bit too seriously...) and
the "perpetrators" seem to come up with ever creative ways to encourage and
aggravate such responses. So, I sleep well.
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David Carlson
Director of Libraries
Bridgewater State College Bridgewater, MA 02325
E: dcarlson@bridgew.edu
V: 508/697-1256 Fax: 508/697-1349
