On 01/27/2012 01:57 PM, Nicholas M Glykos wrote: > > Dear List, > > I have been a (mostly) quiet reader of this list for the last ~5 years and > my intention is to continue reading the excellent posts that the members > of this community contribute almost daily. Having said that, the recent > Vincent-centric 'discussions' have ---as I am sure you all know--- > significantly reduced the signal-to-noise ratio. Can we get back to > normal, please ? >
Greetings Nicholas and many others: I've found that filters help. I have some simple procmail filters set up in my mail directory that redirect some people's email (and in some cases responses to them) to a file I ... well ... never read. By doing so, I find the S/N ratio to be vastly improved. Only one person from Beowulf is in this (not Vincent ... I am still deeply amused by some of the emails, though that is fading fast with the personal attacks). Procmail filters look like this :0: * ^From:.*b...@person.com $HOME/twit.filter Then I never read the twit.filter. Just empty it out every now and then. Maybe once every few years. Doing this has dramatically improved S/N here and elsewhere. If you don't have this capability directly, your mail client can probably fake it. I use this as I have (far too) many mail clients and I don't want to manage the rules on all of them. If you are afflicted with Microsoft exchange as your mail server, I am not sure what you can (easily) do. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
