I've tossed a few posters into my filter, generally for an excess of unamusing puns, but I never understood the theory of compounding the annoyance with long announcements of same.
On Nov 21, 2011, at 0:56, Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, Mary is less pathological case than Cude, but problem is that she > is a perpetual motion machine that goes endlessly onwards and onwards without > need for input energy (food). Like she has moral oblication to protect poor > and consideration inable investors from getting cheated. > > It would be nice if we could introduce her and other hyperactive posters a > special rule that there is a two post per day limit for messages that contain > quoted material and after the quota is exceeded there should be required 24 > hour delay before reply can be sent. This would effectively prevent inboxes > to overflow without limiting too much discussion. Actually, it should enhance > the quality of discussion, because people would think more carefully what is > relavant to say. > > For filtering people, usually it is plausible to filter not just messages > that come from the address jounivalko...@gmail.com, but also messages where > the body contain a phrase "Jouni Valkonen" or email address. This way also > replies will get filtered. > > Also with filtering with Gmail, instead of diverting them into thrash bin, it > would be better to mark them as "read" automatically. This way it is easy to > ignore them in threads, but if there are new topics posted they still appear > in the inbox and will get noted, although not necessarily read. > > —Jouni > > Ps. After Mary came here I have in my inbox more than 70 threads that contain > unread messages. I would say that there is definitely a problem with posting > frequency. > > > On Nov 21, 2011 1:33 AM, "Daniel Rocha" <danieldi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jed, that is NOT possible. He would still see people answering the same > things over and over again. What makes MY annoying is not the arguments, but > the repetition. But the repetition is not only hers, it is also from whoever > answer. So, it won't work just blocking. > > 2011/11/20 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > Esa Ruoho <esaru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you guys had a real nice list going. then mary yugo joined. im out of here. > > Why don't you just block out Mary Yugo's message? Problem solved. > > I'll do that in a week or so, and stop responding. > > - Jed > > > > > -- > Daniel Rocha - RJ > danieldi...@gmail.com >
