Ok, here's my comments. One list is much better than many. If the list is split, then might as well move to usenet. It's great that almost anything can be asked and receive a reply here. I've spent a lot of time over at comp.lang.perl.misc. This list is a lot like c.l.p.m in that there's a large number of posts each day, and many of the posts are beginner questions. That's all of my questions. Frankly, I'm always amazed at how many people that know quite a bit about perl there, and linux here, can spend so much time helping people. That's great. comp.lang.perl.misc is know for rude people and I've had my share of rude postings. c.l.p.m is hard on people that don't follow the "rules" which is most people since most people are new and don't know the "rules." But the rules do make it easier to keep up with the volume of messages. This list is harder. I don't use a threaded mail reader -- so it's harder to follow and ignore threads. But also there's so many messages that I can't keep up the way I'd like. So, I tend to delete any message that isn't easy for me to read. For me that's three simple things: 1) A good descriptive subject. I quickly delete any message where the subject doesn't tell me what's going on. I rarely look at "please help" or "newbie" subjects. Nothing against beginners (that's me), I just don't want to spend the time reading the post to find out the real subject. 2) I'm a big fan of posting replies after the quoted material, and with the quoted material stripped WAY down. If I open a message and see only quoted material in my window then it's deleted with scrolling. I'm on about 10 lists, with two others with equal volume, so I have to find ways to weed out the mail quickly. Oh, I said I have three things. 3) I delete off topic messages. Like this one ;) AND, one other thing. Does anyone really find the [SLE] placed in the subject helpful? Don't most (all) mail clients allow you filter on other headers? I guess I can strip it in pre-processing, but it just doesn't seem like it's needed. Ok, I'll post no more off topic messages. Today. Cheers, Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Bill Moseley wrote:

Ok, here's my comments. [...]

AND, one other thing. Does anyone really find the [SLE] placed in the subject helpful? Don't most (all) mail clients allow you filter on other headers? I guess I can strip it in pre-processing, but it just doesn't seem like it's needed.

Well Bill, this was discussed many times. Some people need this for sorting, other like to see it to know it's important ;-) and ... ... we started with [S.u.S.E.-Linux-e] in the beginning, negotiated to [SuSE-Linux-e] and, after the Oackland people took the list over we quickly switched to [SLE]. Again, it's a help in my "Tips" folder to see were I got it from. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/