Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
Tony Alfrey pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
We have this http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette to improve user experience. To goal is to make archives source of information, not garbage collectors. What can make archives useful? - no offtopic discussions + no answers on OT topics
1. Do not archive posts subject-marked with OT. Can this not be automated?
Instead why not have the list maintainer auto delete posts with OT in them so they don't even make it to the list.
Due to inflation, just my nickels worth.
That wasn't very well thought out. At least when a person marks a post OT, they are being courteous enough to do so voluntarily. If such posts were simply never delivered, then why would anyone mark a post OT? You would still get just as many OT posts, merely now they wouldn't be labeled and you'd have to read them to find out they were uninteresting to you. OT: does not actually automatically mean not-interesting or not relevant. There are many potential items of discussion that would be of interest to the readers of a given list, yet not be technically on that lists nominal official topic. They are related enough not to be out of place, and I for one would not wish to have that info censored and prevented from reaching me. Yes, not all posters are the best and yes that means I receive some uninteresting or irelevant junk sometimes. That's the price or freedom and I'd rather have that than the alternative. I agree with the suggestion to "just chill" Treat things and people as a problem _when they actually are a problem_. -- blw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org