On April 14, 2004 05:52 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:
Anders,
explain?
There is NO search tool for the mailing list archives. Other than maybe Google, which tends to be kinda spotty.
well not really if you do a list search.
Then they should learn about filtering. I once had occasion to actually see
in
person someone who complained about the high volume. It turned out that he put all his mail in the inbox, he had no clue that he could create folders and automatically filter list mail into them. No wonder it got to be too much. If I had dumped everything into the inbox, I'd be crying like a baby after a week.
I am filtering this all to a folder, and it's still too darned much ... > 70 messages a day. I'm subscribed to about 18 different mailing lists, and my 30MB mailbox fills up fast, even without this list. So I'll be unsubscribing as soon as I finish with the issues I'm currently interested in.
This is a high volume list that is correct. However, there is notice to the same on the subscribe page. I dont see how this is an issue. Sorry.
Which is a shame, since I have enough experience to help some people. But I can't waste time deleting dozens of messages a day to do it.
Well I do approx 1500 per day, all nicely filtered by kmail. No procmail no nothing. Simply scan the headers for what interests you, and move the remainder to trash. Auto clean trash on existing kmail. Can be done.
And, what if they joined this list to ask for help about filtering? Or if they're on a dial-up connection, where each e-mail takes 30 seconds to download?
Well with dialup users there certainly is an issue. Thats where LUGs come in. No one is alone, each entity has a role to play. I would say the basic linux infrastructure of self supporting community has been pretty effective to date. Regards /ch