[ale] This list is flooding with messages

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Ben,

    Welcome to the list. Obviously you are new otherwise you wouldn't 
call us a professional list! I personally haven't enjoyed the recent 
banter about the local Bellsouth issues (especially since my actual 
linux question about Apache/ssh proxies was ignored) BUT - it *is* the 
ATLANTA Linux Enthusiests group list and local internet connectivity is 
a BIG issue for linux users here so it fits our more wider definition 
fairly well I think. As far as your suggestion about this being a 
questions only list with the requester posting  a summary of replies I 
can just say BAAWW HAHAHAHAHAA!!! I mean that in a nice way though. You 
just don't know us very well... give it some time and you'll laugh too.
   
    best regards,

          Ben Scherrey

Ben Le wrote:

> I am new with this Linux list. I know this list is very helpful for 
> Linux users. However, have all of you noticed that this list is 
> flooding with messages and most of the messages have nothing to do 
> with Linux? For example, this list lately is flooding with hundred of 
> messages about phone services and ISP (comcast, Qwest, Bellsouth...) 
> that has nothing to do with Linux. I would recommend to post the 
> questions only on this list. The answer will need to send directly to 
> the question's owner instead to the list (to prevent hundred of 
> answers and flooding the list). The question's owner is responsible to 
> put the good answers together and post it to the list as a 'summary'. 
> After the 'summary' is posted, the subject is closed. This is the way 
> most of professional user list is using such as HP-UX user group list. 
> May be it just only me, I would love too, but I can't go through all 
> the messages of this list every days, it is just too many. Thanks.
>
> Ben
>
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