-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Roman Neuhauser hath spake thusly: > I guess that quite a few of the subscribers are just devoted to > flooding this list with chitchat. I would suggest creating > mutt-chat, so that those who feel the urge to send non-technical, OT > stuff to mutt-users would have a place to go.
I can not count the number of times I've seen such suggestions on mailing lists from people concerned about the signal to noise ratio. What such people invariably fail to realize is that these OT discussions almost always result directly from discussions that originally WERE on-topic, and are unavoidable. Humans have a penchant for going off on tangents, and you can not possibly hope to legislate this behavior. Creating new sublists to "solve" the problem DOES NOT WORK. EVER. OT posts are a fact of life on mailing lists, unless you're on a mailing list that happens to attract only the most stodgy and boring people. The fact is, people who have one interest in common often have others too, and those differing interests WILL intersect, from time to time, and be discussed in forums like this one. You have only two options: Unsubscribe, or learn to enjoy pressing the delete key. Sorry if you don't like that, but history has proven that that's the way it is. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8QKfndjdlQoHP510RAv19AJ0clVTFIDKiHq2DqUKVXiwjSCUoCgCeObSK dt2RDjW4ib+BnlH9XideDlQ= =lYEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
