On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:13:04 +0100, Niels Bakker said: > * r...@gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec) [Sat 20 Mar 2021, 14:03 CET]: > >2. This is a low-traffic list, so even without appropriate mail client > >support it's really not a big deal. > > The volume isn't the point, the S:N ratio is. Mails like this thread's > starter are off-topic and reduce the value of the list to its > subscribers. Your reasoning is easy, common and fallacious.
Unfortunately, the *rest* of the thread did more damage to Friday's S:N ratio than the original post did. And adding "topic" tags to the subject line doesn't actually help the food-fight scenario, as those can break out even in [TOPIC] tagged threads. To tilt it the rest of the way from sub-optimal to outright pessimal is the fact that some subscribers may find a thread has gone off into the weeds, while others consider all the details interesting. So having a kill-thread command in the MUA is the most realistic place to deal with "this user doesn't want to hear from this thread again".
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