[ale] [OT]The flame-baiting... (and a question on Charter)

[Chris Farris]

I'm actually pondering a filter that you could subscribe to that will
_not_ deliver any message w/ H1B in the subject. That in as of itself
would cut down half the off topic crap on this list.

PS. Anyone have Charter's Business Cablemodem service? I'm needing a
static IP at home (and maybe a redundant backup for
room17/primeharbor/ale et'al), but I'm worried about reliability.

Thanks
Chris

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 08:56, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 08:39, trey wrote:
> > Without naming names, there are a few folks on this list that seem
> > incorrigible. Gosh, it sure is hard to ignore them. Is it wrong-minded
> > to do so?
> 
> I don't think so. Of the growing number of heated discussions not
> related to Linux on this list, I have noticed that the longer they go,
> the less likely they are to contain anything relevant to the general
> list. So I just delete messages based on subject line. If during the
> process of determining that the flame war is a waste of my time I also
> determine that a poster is particularly loathsome, I start deleted posts
> based on that users ID. This generally continues until I manage to
> forget the loathsomeness. There was one case where I actually added that
> address to my kill filters.
> 
> So I would say that, no, it's not wrong-minded to ignore them. This is a
> voluntary effort. I can choose with whom I wish to associate and
> interact with. I am under no obligation to interact with the
> incorrigibles. Nor is anyone. Nor should they be.
> > 
> > -- Trey
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