Farewell and thanks!

Mouse wrote:

What linimon@ said. I just now noticed something. I've noticed people mentioning instances of, shall we say, "excessive bluntness" occasionally here. But, significantly more often than not, I never saw the, er, "excessively blunt" message itself. Usually, as in this case, this turns out to be because (for unrelated reasons) I go to some lengths to avoid seeing anything that was sent through gmail, even laundered through mailing lists. (This loses me some mail I regret losing, but, so far, not enough to make me take out those blocks. And note that it's not people using gmail addresses I block, but mail actually sent through gmail.) I'm wondering if perhaps this correlation works well enough for other people that dropping list mail sent through gmail could help preserve the S/N ratio of the list for those who find it low enough that dropping off the list entirely is looking attractive. (_Why_ that test correlates that way for me is an interesting, but only tangentially related, question.)