Todd W wrote: > > "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> This is too fun, and so occupies far to much of what should otherwise >> be a productive workday. >> >> Alas, I must unsubscribe again. >> >> *sigh* >> >> Later, all. :) >> > > You can point your news reader to nntp.perl.org and keep your mailbox > uncluttered, but then theres even MORE messages to read/reply to =0)
Yes, definitely the preferred method.. you can 'expire' messages after a few days of not being read, so that there's not *quite* so much to catch up on if you're away for a week or two doing RL(tm) things :) Of course, the uncluttered mailbox is the best method. Plus this helps to reduce the amount of "false threads" where new users tend to "reply" to the mailing list and then create a completely new message that has a message-id header [References: ] referring to the previous post (which messes with threaded newsreaders something fierce) In other words, if I see a topic I have no interest in, I tend to mark the whole thread as READ. If you "replied" to one of these posts, instead of starting a NEW thread for your NEW topic by creating a NEW message and addressing it to the list accordingly, then your message would never be seen by me. I see this way too much here, and strongly advocate the newsreader approach for this reason. =] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
