"Doucement" was: Re: [Am-info] Gene, we need a ruling - Spam and the list

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:59:38 -0400, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

>I tend to agree with Felmon.  Fred does get a bit out of hand, but a fair
>amount of his posts are at least related to Microsoft or their arch enemy
>to the death Linux.  You guys want to see insane way off topic posters
>take a look in the comp.os.os2 news groups.  Compared to fruitcakes like
>Tim Martin, Fred is a gentle ripple in the ocean.
>
>At least Fred's subjects are clear enough that I can ignore most of them.
>
>Mark
>

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I guess I should chime in as well.

Fred...are you reading this?...The French have a word called "doucement"
which I don't know how to properly translate, but all in all, I don't care 
about this issue.  So, I won't complain; you'll get better!  I can always 
quietly vote with my feet if I so choose, but I'm not even close to that yet.

Yep, I get over 300 messages per day, most every day, (getting just over 20% 
spam now) between emails and Usenet stuff that I do want.  I've become
good at the keyboard and screen, though I must admit it's taken a couple 
of decades.  (I first got email in 1978).

I was on holiday (vacation) for a week last week and came home to over
2200 messages.  Took me about an hour to plow through them.  What?
Probably 5% - 10% replies on my behalf.  I knew which ones to read.

When and if the pain gets big enough, I'll set up more filters.  Like, I could 
filter everything from "Miller" plus what doesn't have MS, M$, Microsoft, 
MickeySoft, etc., in the text, and dump them into a new folder in my email 
client, then quickly eyeball it and read only what piques my interest.  The 
rest could stay in my AM-INFO folder, and maybe re-filter them again.  
I haven't got anywhere to that level with this list, but I very easily could 
do it.  Also, I'm lazy...I've never even got round to getting AM-INFO's 
digest.

Hey, isn't that what computers are for?  A tool, a powerful tool; you just
need to use it, or find another endeavor to keep you as busy and outta 
trouble. <g>

I think Google takes more time to find the things you do want.  You've
got less control over your web browser.

-- 
Erick Andrews