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

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Fri Jun 16 18:40:50 EDT 2006


On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:

> 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.

Since I just built the machine and put it into production within the past 
3 weeks, that's easily true.

Who has time to read all their email? For example, in the past 30 days, 
I've received 6,918 messages or an average of 223 per day. That doesn't 
count the hundreds I get at work.

-james



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