From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Let's shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:41:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3bkycoof.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ela7r-0007id-47@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:03 -0500")
> I can see why you might hesitate to _read_ a list with a lot of spam,
> but why, rationally, would the amount of spam affect your decision to
> post to the list? I don't see how it makes any difference.
It makes no difference indeed in the case where you don't read the list *at
all* before posting. But if you select the newsgroup just before posting an
article (the standard operation AFAIK: it's even usually recommended to
read a bit of a newsgroup before you post to it), or if you check the
archive before sending a mail to the mailing-list, then I'd be surprised if
the spam doesn't turn you off. I mean: you really have to look for the
valid articles in order to realize that the group/list is actually
still alive.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-12 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-11 10:16 Let's shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-11 22:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-11 23:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-12-12 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-12 8:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-12 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-12 21:33 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-13 3:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-12 9:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-12 18:49 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-12 22:42 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-12 22:18 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-13 6:57 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-13 18:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-12 14:49 ` Sam Steingold
2005-12-12 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-12 22:18 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-12 22:52 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-13 6:07 ` Bill Wohler
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