New Computer

[Richard England]

Peter Connolly wrote:
> Bruce, I don't think you get it. Karl is one of those short-wave 
> junkies (see the call letters in his signature), and as such the act 
> of communicating is the thing of interest, not the content of the 
> communication.  As far as I can tell, Karl has no unpublished 
> thoughts, no matter how banal.  Let's pray he never discovers Twitter....
>
> And even if the Fedora maillist wasn't high-volume, many of us listen 
> in on many maillists.  So to see so much noise being generated by a 
> few individuals is annoying at best.  I agree with Robert that this is 
> the type of noise level that belongs on a blog so that the masochistic 
> few can tune in if they want/need to.  But who listens to us?
>
> And Richard, if that's been tried and it "didn't take," I think that's 
> the indictment you need to listen to.  Few of us care about this kind 
> of endless blather.
>
> Finally, Todd, since it's obvious that Karl's prattle will never end, 
> I'd be interested if you ever got that thread-killer working...
>
>
> On 8/26/07, *bruce* <bedouglas at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     I haven't seen all the 'msgs' in a given karl thread, but the ones
>     I have
>     seen tend to be from someone who's trying to get a better
>     understanding of
>     how things work....
>
>     So, exactly what is the issue????
>
>     If you don't want to look at a given msg, the delete key does work
>     pretty
>     well... and if you really think you're getting into a situation
>     where your
>     email is just getting too damn swamped with 'garbage'/useless
>     emails.. you
>     can always outsource to someone and have them filter your email!!!
>
>     peace..
>
>
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>
>     Karl Larsen wrote:
>     > Todd Zullinger wrote:
>     >> Richard England wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> That approach has been tried, Robert.  It didn't "take".   I
>     believe
>     >>> this IS the blog, now.
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >> Karl blogs to /dev/null on my system.  It seems to be working out
>     >> quite well. :)
>     >>
>     >> (If only I could be bothered to whip up a procmail recipe to
>     also drop
>     >> any thread started by his blog software^W^Wemail program to
>     /dev/null
>     >> as well.  So far, I haven't taken the time to do that.)
>     >>
>     >>
>     >    If you can't find an automatic way to kill my messages I
>     suggest you
>     > find the delete key and use it.
>     >
>
>     Actually Karl, the problem is not deleting your messages. The
>     problem is
>     deleting the threads (initiated by your mails), with all the noise
>     that
>     they generate, automatically :-)
>
>     Wonder what the Thunderbird folks should do?
>
>     later,
>     Rogue
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The "indictment" that I should listen to.....smooth phrase... meaning I 
should not have continued the thread? 

I ascribe to a philosophy that says that everyone who speaks may have 
something worthy  to listen to.  So I have not, as yet, attempted to 
filter any of Karl's  or any other postings.  Karl adds to this group 
when he has an issue that he follows through to the end and reports on 
what the fix or bug was.  But as Michael Schwendt points out, the lack 
of etiquette or any attempt to fit in with the perhaps ad hoc process 
used on this list makes his posting disruptive and makes me start to 
consider a kill file. 

I hope Karl continues to explore Linux, I hope he continues to 
contribute to this group, but I would also hope that he would listen 
more and contribute where it is beneficial and not just add chafe to the 
wheat.

And by the way,  if you want to check it out, I suspect my "blather 
quotient" is really pretty low here.  Almost to the point of being a 
lurker.  So my apologies if my frustration has continued a thread that 
you wished would die but my frustration level over came my discretion 
and, unlike the other 20 odd times, I hit the return key instead of the 
delete key.  I'll return to lurking.

I probably should delete this one, too,...but....

~~R