Vortex is for me, a forum where I have old e-friends. In my opinion very strict rules are not necessary- if somebody wants to tell me about an interesting subject- fine. If the subject is not interesting for me, I am deletimg the message a few seconds of work. Peter
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Jojo Jaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 1. Extra verbiage does not bother me, it's the clumsy mailing list >> format that's causing a lot of heartache. It sends you all the mail and it >> clogs my Internet pipe. (I don't have a fast pipe like you have.) The >> problem in not so much in the amount of threads, but rather in how the >> threads are delivered to you because of the Mailing List format. >> > > Maybe you need the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail reader. It does a good job > sorting out the threads in various ways. I use both Thunderbird and the > on-line gmail reader. > > > >> A Forum Format would help alleviate many problems. Maybe you can help me >> prevail upon Bill to do this. >> > > Honestly, I don't know anything about it and I have no opinion. > > You mentioned creationism. That is a good candidate for filtering. With > gmail it is easy to build a filter that auto-deletes any message with that > word in it. Presto -- problem solved. It is not like you are obligated to > read every message in Vortex. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
