Re: Self-control was: Proposed sci.electronics.design club

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:21:50 +1000, Al Borowski
<al.borowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Guy Macon wrote:
>> Al Borowski wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Killfiling is stupid imo. It's just like putting your fingers in your
>>>ears and chanting "I can't hear you!". Nothing a little self-control
>>>can't handle.
>>
>>
>> It's all about signal and noise. Some sources are all noise and
>> no signal, so why not block those sources?
>
>My opinion is; If you don't want to read posts by one person, then don't
>click on them. No-one is holding a gun to anyones head forcing them to
>read posts. It doesn't take much self control to just ignore them.

A kill-file eliminates having to go through the extra motions of
deleting the posts.

>
>I'm all for filtering spam. The sheer volume of it makes it a pain to
>read email. Unless we're dealing with automated crapfloods that isn't
>the case with posters.
>
>Al

Ghee just isn't worth the hassle, period.

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