Three answers:

- Noise is normal in any mailing list, especially the ones where people are
 happily willing to help, but also wanna be a part of a community.
- There is always the digest for you.
- There's always the archive even after you have deleted all these great
 e-mails

Now, can we get back to the program? :)

A bientot,

Philippe

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:01:59 -0700
 Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Yep, I know I am jaded. I look outside and I see three of these things. I
> see a couple more down the street, and at least 5 or 6 everyday I go to
> work, or the lumber yard, or to see my kids, or whatnot...
> I understand that in Kapskolutia Wisconsin, a vanagon siting might be a big
> deal. It might make your week..... but....
>
> But trust me, they DON'T belong to the list. Well, the probability that they
> don't belong to the list is not a negative number, but trust me, they
> probably don't belong to the list.
>
> Twice a week now, I need to wipe out my hotmail account. All that valuable
> information, down the tubes. All the important questions about tires. All
> the fighting, all the nastyness. All the discussions about what happens if
> you rearend a semi at 70MPH in your van. It all gets deleted twice a week
> because you all fill up my hotmail account... twice a week.
>
> Some common curtesy perhaps...
> 1.) Is what you say totally important to the discussion?
> 2.) Did you read the entire thread to see if what you want to express has
> already been discussed?
> 3.) Didja even try the archives before asking a question? i.e. keywords
> tires, passenger, Firestone... etc.
> 4.) Answering flamebait makes you feel better.... and fills up the list
> bigtime... and no one wants to read it anyway. Is it necessary to do this?
> 5.) Answering flamebait four days later... what's with that?
>
> Sorry to help fill your inbox with this. But I suspect half the list has me
> shooting into the trashbin automatically anyway.
>
> Just think about it.
>
> tim in san jose
>
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