From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T02:53:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:

> On 2010-04-14, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I notice you both have email addresses from hosts I'm not familiar with,
> > perhaps they don't group posts into threads, so you get hit with about
> ten
> > times as many messages as I do. That would be frustrating.
>
> Hosts are not what group posts into threads.  Mail clients are.
>

Sorry, I do my email online, so used the wrong terminology. I just mean that
gmail will take 50 posts about ruids, and group them all together in a
single thread, so it doesn't spam my inbox. It also filters the threads out
and sets them in their own separate area, so they never touch my inbox at
all. If your _client_ ;) didn't do this, I can see how the list could spam
your inbox. Or maybe we're talking about something other than lots of long
posts about boids and ruids in a small number of threads? If so, I think the
people calling for moderation need to clarify specifically what their issue
is.

Ignoring the bandwidth cost because you don't see it is not totally
> rational.
>
>
Is email bandwidth even an issue these days? I stream all of my music, all
day. Pretty sure one minute of streaming music exceeds an entire month's
worth of emails (assuming no attachments). Though it's not an issue if you
do it online, anyway, because the emails just sit on a server somewhere,
they wouldn't affect bandwidth unless you went to view them.

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