Re: Number of OT Posts
Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/26/07 17:26, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>> I'm as loathe
>>> as anyone to stifle any impetus to communicate here, but I'm
>>> beginning to wonder whether the amount of posting on religion/
>>> atheism, the price of gasoline, abortion, politics in general,
>>> and other such topics isn't beginning to make the S/N ratio bad. It's
>>> getting a little difficult to find the ON topic posts.
>>>
>>
>> Actually for me the problem is that I pay by the amount of bandwidth that
>> I use. Believe it or not all these OT posts put together costs me money.
>>
>> I think the best way to deal with this (in a band width efficient manner)
>> is to subscribe to this mailing list through gmane newsgroup interface
>> and then use knode -> Scoring -> Ignore thread. That way I do not even
>> download those posts.
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> That's an *excellent* idea.
>
> I hate gmane (or maybe just it's web interface). d-u is dual-ported
> to news:linux.debian.user. That's what I'd use.
linux.debian.user doesn't propagate well and, IIRC, doesn't have a reliable
mail2news gateway. nntp://news.game.org/linux.debian.user would be a more
appropriate URL if you want the newsgroup version of the list.
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