[nylug-talk] [Offtopic] OpenSolaris meeting 6pm Wednesday, February 20th

[Chris Knadle]

On Monday 18 February 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Michael Bacarella wrote:
> > Doesn't complaining about it even once consume more time than all of the
> > time you'll ever spend in your entire life scrolling?
>
> No, what happens is people stop reading the list because of it, thus
> solving the trimming problem and their desire to complain about it in
> one fell swoop, something we'd like to prevent.
>
> I confess right here and now, I do it too.

   Hmm.  Well, this probably won't work for you, Ron, but for the rest of us I 
guess it's better to make a set of filters to redirect undesirable senders 
from the list to the trash.  It's despiration no doubt, and I don't like it, 
but it's better than universally unsubscribing.

   So filtering on a "List-Id" of "nylug-talk.nylug.org"  AND  "From" 
of "<someone's email address>" -> send-to-folder "Trash" should do the trick.  
This way the sender being filtered can still mail you privately, if need be.

   The magic underlying message for me that triggers this seems to be an issue 
with a reply with anything akin to "My mind is made up and I am not 
listening."  It's something that is almost never said, so until now I've 
never filtered anybody.
   Oh well.  Things change.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us