Gordon Campbell writes:

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When there are one or two small items posted on a topic thats no big deal. When its a lot of stuff, it becomes an enormous pain. Multiply the few seconds to read and digest enough of a message to know you should delete it by dozens of messages per mailing list per day and by a dozen mailing lists and you suddenly have an untenable waste of your time.

I con't recall you speaking up against the various flame wars that have been going on in here lately, Perry.

Thats because I largely send people private mail. I try not to nag in public. Just because you don't see me say "this is irrelevant" doesn't mean I didn't notice. Perry