Do I let crm114 filter my Suspects mail, or teach it that I want to see anything sent there by a real person? I mean, there's a lot of it that I really don't want to see.
If you don't want to read all of it, then filter it. Seems like a perfectly straightforward decision.
This may be completely missing your point, but I've had people express surprise at various times that I don't read suspects. "Everyone in 'the community' reads suspects! You've just... gotta!" Frankly, most of it is whiny and/or irrelevant, and far indeed from the charter. (If there was, say, a "-events-announce" version, I'd be all over that.)
CRM114 is pretty accurate at telling what of my other mail I want to read, and when it marks suspects mail as garbage it's usually right. It's train-on-errors so I can happily tell it that stuff I care about isn't spam, and I am reasonably comfortable not correcting it when it says that an event posting 1000 miles away from someone I've never met is spam even though it went to a mailing list I mostly care about and came from a real person. But I don't think I will be comfortable telling it to roundfile stuff from local people I know well but happen to think are tedious. That just hits too close to home -- sometimes I find myself tedious, too, so where's the boundary?
Wasn't suspects INTENDED to be "events-announce"? Somewhere along the way "can someone recommend a plumber in Somerville" became an "event".
I'm soooo amazed at how little it has affected my life to send suspects to a junky account that I only read (or, rather, mass-delete) every couple of weeks.
To quote from the charter: suspects is an announcement only mailing list used for annoucing parties, events, movements and happenings within the greater elbows area. Based on a non-rigorous look at what's in the spool right now, I'd say it's running 20% or so "on topic". I used to be annoyed about it, but now I've mostly gotten over it (not really reading it any more helps greatly) and I just use off-topic suspects posts as killfile fodder and get on with life. For whatever reason, the average net denizen is not what they used to be.
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Date: 2003-10-08 03:25 pm (UTC)This may be completely missing your point, but I've had people express surprise at various times that I don't read suspects. "Everyone in 'the community' reads suspects! You've just... gotta!" Frankly, most of it is whiny and/or irrelevant, and far indeed from the charter. (If there was, say, a "-events-announce" version, I'd be all over that.)
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Date: 2003-10-09 12:06 pm (UTC)Wasn't suspects INTENDED to be "events-announce"? Somewhere along the way "can someone recommend a plumber in Somerville" became an "event".
I'm soooo amazed at how little it has affected my life to send suspects to a junky account that I only read (or, rather, mass-delete) every couple of weeks.
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Date: 2003-10-09 10:22 pm (UTC)