Re: end off topic discussions
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:09:06PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:35:34AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> | Dear debian-users, there seems to be off topic discussions occurring
> | on this list.
>
> Yeah, that happens from time to time.
>
> | as all this is costing me money, i.e. modem time.
>
> Then find a way to reduce modem time, from your side. An easy way is
> to put a filter on the mail server and discard the stuff you don't
> want to read. (of course, that means reading the mailing list rather
> than the news gateway) For people who don't have the flexibility of
> putting a filter on the server itself, 'popsneaker' is a useful tool
> for clearing out POP mailboxes without downloading the body of the
> message. (http://www.ixtools.de/popsneaker/)
>
> (oh, BTW, there's a fair amount of d-u mail that I file in the
> bit-bucket because the subject mentions some programs I'm not
> interested in. It helps on the time expense too :-))
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
Thanks for the tip, but I agree with Dan. On this list, I mainly expect
questions and answers about debian, or maybe related software & hardware
topics. I am not interested in e. g. discusions about the use of 'Mrs' in
different regions, and I wish that these be held in private or _at_least_
have an appropriate subject line such as 'use of Mrs - was: ...'.
Regards, Joachim
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Joachim Fahnenmüller
Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik
Herder-Gymnasium
Kattowitzer Straße 52
51065 Köln
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