On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Allan Wind <allan_w...@lifeintegrity.com>wrote:
> On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't > > ignore them? > > I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with > thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal mail > configuration. *As such* my preference is to automate processing of such > messages as I already do for other subjects like spam. If it cannot be > done in a way that benefit all members of this mailing list and at the > same time educates the sender, then perhaps a per-user solution would be > an interest to a subset of this audience. *As such* it seemed > constructive to inquire if anyone had already solved this technical > problem. [My emphasis] > I object to messages which use the phrase "as such" to mean "so", or "therefore", or whatever it is you think it means. But it would be as silly to try to filter on semi-literate uses of "as such" as it would be to try to filter on irrelevant uses of "test" or "help" or other often legitimate words. This mailing list is an open list. As such [a correct usage], it accepts all messages, dumb or not (including this one). Patrick
