to newcomers: please try to solve the problem yourself beforeasking
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun Sep 12 09:52:05 UTC 2004
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:21 AM -0400 Beej-in-GA
> <bryan-smith at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I would, however, like to point out that there are on most keyboards a
>> key called delete. The purpose of this is to get rid of unwanted things.
>
> This presumes that there's zero cost to acquiring and filtering.
not to mention the fact that a lot of folks might scan the postings
and delete simply by subject field, and a poorly-chosen subject field
might fake one into starting to read a posting that turns out to be
worthless to them.
i have a simple solution to that -- i just delete postings whose
subject field isn't clear and unambiguous. that means *every*
posting that does not have a subject field, or that contains phrases
like "help!" or "urgent!" or "please read!". and, in particular,
those that think they're being cute by posting to a worldwide
technical list and introducing themselves with the subject "hi".
grrrr .....
rday
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