On 9/18/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 18/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Ah, I remember the good old days when it was possible to delete individual messages. Of course, back then it wasn't easy to ignore entire threads. Yeah, I don't think it was ever easy to sort through the boring stuff and find the interesting stuff in an unmoderated mailing list. I'm jealous that you figured out a way to do it.
The people of Usenet are decades ahead of you. Does inbox.org not have killfile functionality? If so, would you consider replying to the Mailman software thread on the topic of a Mailman-side killfile?
I use gmail. I could possibly set up a filter to automatically delete messages from certain people, but I'm not sure if that would work or not, it wouldn't delete messages made in reply to those messages from certain people, and sometimes those people send messages which are actually interesting. As for hitting the delete key, that actually doesn't work in gmail, if you hit delete it deletes the entire thread. And it's fairly useless anyway, because once I've wasted the time scanning the email to figure out if it's worth reading I've wasted plenty of time already.
Gmail does have the nice auto-threading feature though, its filtering lets me put mail from all the mailing lists I subscribe to in a single folder, and gmail lets me send replies using inbox.org as the from address.
As for your second question, I don't understand it.
I certainly enjoy the fact that moderators will occasionally block messages which tend to do nothing other than destroy discussions (the off-topic trolling ones can really destroy a thread sometimes). Other times I'm sure the moderators have blocked messages that I'd find useful. There really isn't a good solution within the email-based discussion framework. And web-based discussion boards are usually even worse, even though they have the potential to be better (and one incredibly useful thing they never provide is the ability for me to read all my mailing lists in a single place without jumping from board to board).