On Fri,05.Jun.09, 23:23:24, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:35:21PM EDT, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <[🔎] 4A2963A8.3030801@gmail.com>, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > >Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > > >> P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user > > >> (too high volume). > > > >Oh...I get it... You want to benefit from the expertise on the list, > > >but you're too busy to delete a few e-mails to contribute your > > >assistance to others on the list... > > > > While it is not strictly list policy, it is common courtesy to CC > > someone when they request it. > > > In addition, the list administrators made a conscious decision to > > allow posting from non-subscribers because some of the lists are quite > > high volume and there are still people that have metered Internet > > connections; they pay for each email they receive even if they delete > > it before reading it. > > Not sure I buy that.. a daily download from debian-user is still much > less than a a few minutes' worth of commercial web browsing with a few > naughty video clips on the side.. > > :-) > > My impression is that a growing number of people find (un)subscribing > such a hassle that they can't be bothered.. sign of the times. Handling ~100 mails per day when your average "normal" traffic is in single digits is not easy to do. Especially when the signal-to-noise ratio is so high: 1 question and 5 (including mine) useless posts... Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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