Re: Number of OT Posts
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> 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.
Indeed, newsgroups were created to deal with the high-traffic mailing-list
problem originally, so that would be the easiest, fastest method to deal
with high traffic mailing lists at this point.
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