[tde-users] Re: [OT] Spam

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:45:59PM +0000, Janek Stolarek wrote: It is very true that the overall amount of spam on this list is minuscule, but its the fact that somebody went out of their way to resend it (perhaps in case some of us missed out on the fun of being annoyed by it the first time?) that boggles my brain :-) As for off-topic emails, they don't bother me too greatly. (Maybe just a teeny bit.) When a new thread starts up, it's almost always at least peripherally related to TDE. Something to do with administrating a TDE system at least. It's not as if people are starting new threads to discuss what they ate for breakfast, or politics, or the latest finds from the archaelogical digs in London's new rail line. (Although I'd read posts on that last one.) True, the threads do tend to rapidly diverge and become off-topic discussions, but by that stage I have usually tuned out and I'm just deleting the posts unread as they come in. I think that if this was a brand new group, not just a migration from one list to another, we could be a bit stricter about off-topic emails. But it's a small community, with not many regular participants. There is a lot of institutional knowledge held by the regulars and if the cost of keeping them around is to put up with a bit of off-topic discussion and their inability to trim pages and pages of quoted text onto the eighth or tenth generation "> > > > > > > > > > blah blah blah" then so be it. -- Steve