[wplug] Fwd: prometheus [radio] back in pittsburgh!

Jonathan S. Billings billings at negate.org
Fri Jun 16 14:44:17 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:52 -0700, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Shane Liesegang wrote:
> > I assume everyone filters WPLUG mail to its own folder anyway -- if you're 
> > technical enough to be interested in Linux, I would hope you know how to 
> > filter your mail. That way there's no way for mailing list mail to mess up 
> > your inbox and keep you from seeing something important. Personally, when I 
> > look at my WPLUG folder and see 30+ messages since the previous morning, I 
> > kind of roll my eyes and assume "uh oh, something blew up." :-)
> 
> That doesn't quite scale when you have 6128 unread messages across your 
> wplug folders. (Plus 29,532 messages in other folders.)

Yeah, but you've never read your email.  I suspect there's unread
messages in your mailboxes that predate most of the hardware you're
using to read the mail.

-- 
Jonathan Billings 

Anything cut to length will be too short.





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