-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Timothy C. May writes:
I used the ExI software, and found it an interesting experiment, but I can't say it save me any real effort. The effort of sending the filtering message to the list site, hassling with the formats, etc., clearly outweighed the tiny effort it would have taken to manually press "d" to delete the messages when then appeared.
Like the use of PGP, this may be due to the different tools in use. I read email using the vm package for emacs. While I was on the extropians list I found it very convenient to reply to the first message of a topic I was not interested in, modify the address, and enter the simple ::exclude message. Other tools and environments could make this more difficult.
(A side issue: Whatever seconds were saved by the distribution-point filtering (and I haven't mentioned the CPU time required...an issue for us to consider with 700 list members) on the Extropians list were often negated for the others by people asking "What are you talking about?" or "Could someone send me Joe's posting on foo--I had him in my ::exclude file.")
Good point. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A contract programmer is always intense. Patrick May pjm@gasco.com (public key available from servers) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUBLndwmhByYwhWPvz1AQHWbQP+MSM9YF0+OE1cPtDDSOUJhPyKNR3u7Zsi 9YBMH5TBTgh0TZCe6vs7EdSMXugRnvz0zvemqb0QrhVraTMbG70ecGnVZA5NP8pW NzRn1Id3jktYgXgzCvW8DDIx0YSL5apYlK2Zm43qAMpQZRWhIHeZNVRIrTtmUbJG PcagmiK2EfA= =mms6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----