OFF: Re: What's happening??

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:

=> actually I must admit I don't mind the 'irrelevant' postings one bit -
=> entertaining and fun - you can't have facts all the time - and what else is
=> the delete button there for, anyway??

Don't you know?  The delete button is there to trim away the parts below
"----- Original Message -----" that are not pertinent to the reply,
Andy.  Try it some time.

I've always found the "use the delete button" a specious argument at the
best of times.  My delete button has been taking a hammering lately,
which is worrying: my computer is an old DEC 3000/300 system, and I
don't think you can get DEC LK201 keyboards anymore.  So, once my delete
key wears out, I'm up the creek... :-(

=> From: "Mich at el B" <michaelangelo68 at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
=> Subject: Re: OFF: Re: What's happening??
=>
=> > imagine if everyone on all his lists replied to him to say
=> >
=> > Ok man - no problem  - I'll do it just for you
=> >
=> > tee hee

That was so funny, I wet myself.  But actually, that would be great, if
they kept their promise.  I'm sure he'd brook a short term inconvenience
to alleviate a long term improvement in the signal to noise ratio.

Personally, I've found procmail to be my saviour as of late.  It's cut
down a lot of the "irrelevant postings" coming from this list.  When I
read up on the scoring function, I'm sure I'll be able to tweak it to be
a bit less heavy handed with the redirection to /dev/null, but there's
no hurry as far as I'm concerned... :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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