From:	pfife AT cisco DOT com (Peter R Fife)
Subject:	Re: Too Much Mail Volume
3 Dec 1997 04:12:27 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<3.0.3.32.19971203164417.0074bae0.cygnus.gnu-win32@ringer.cisco.com>
References:	<EKKJFz DOT 39x AT bbc DOT com>
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To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I don't see what the fuss is about with spam email and the like. Just set
up the appropriate filters to put spam etc into a spam mailbox. Then,
quickly scan the contents of this mailbox, read anything that looks
interesting and delete the rest. That's what I do. The only problem I see
with spam email is wasting Internet bandwidth. 

So, I filter this mailing list to a particular mailbox. I only read it when
I want to.

Regards,
Peter


At 03:38 PM 12/2/97 GMT, Chris Faylor wrote:
>In article <6j3hsQAppfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de>,
>Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>>I second the idea of moving this mailing list to a newsgroup.
>>
>>No. This isn't a high traffic mailing list compared to a lot of other
>>lists I am on.
>
>I vote emphatically against moving this to a newsgroup.  I don't think that
>the traffic justifies it.  Also, we'll all be subject to much more spam
>both from the newsgroup spammers and from the spammers who harvest mail
>addresses from newsgroup headers.
>
>If cygwin or some well-connected site wanted to set up a private NNTP
>server to host a private newsgroup, however, I think that would be a
>great idea.
>
>
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