Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > >> I'm as loathe >> as anyone to stifle any impetus to communicate here, but I'm >> beginning to wonder whether the amount of posting on religion/ >> atheism, the price of gasoline, abortion, politics in general, >> and other such topics isn't beginning to make the S/N ratio bad. It's >> getting a little difficult to find the ON topic posts. >> > > Actually for me the problem is that I pay by the amount of bandwidth that > I use. Believe it or not all these OT posts put together costs me money. > > I think the best way to deal with this (in a band width efficient manner) > is to subscribe to this mailing list through gmane newsgroup interface and > then use knode -> Scoring -> Ignore thread. That way I do not even > download those posts.
Indeed, newsgroups were created to deal with the high-traffic mailing-list problem originally, so that would be the easiest, fastest method to deal with high traffic mailing lists at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
