[plug] Emails to List

[Quintin Lette]

Wasn't this why the OT sub mailinglist was created? but I guess it has to be a 
conscious decision to send the [OT] mail to the right list.  Is it possible 
to split it at the server side? or whould that take too much cpu power on 
poor old spark? Just a thought

Quintin

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:17, Richard Meyer wrote:
> >While I run the risk of having a flamethrower pointed at me, can I ask
> >if the recent spate of off topic posts is normal. I'm all for
> >conversation, but I did think I subscribed to a Linux list.
> >
> >If this signal to noise ratio is normal, can someone point me at a Linux
> >list with more signal and less noise?
>
> It's pretty normal. The people get on their hobby-horses and air their
> prejudices (which they believe all right-thinking people should share -
> oops all left-thinking people, then). The good thing is that they tend to
> mark their posts with [OT] almost as soon as they get off-topic.
>
> Put in a rule that killfiles all posts with [OT] in the subject line.
> Getting them off their hobby-horses, most posters are quite rational ;-)
>
> RichardM