19 Feb
2020
19 Feb
'20
4:22 p.m.
Please make sure your messages to CCTalk have a Subject: line, otherwise
they end up being 'un-clickable' in the archive, like this:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2020-February/date.html
It's possible to hand-edit the URL's to see them, but it's a PITA!
Noel
19 Feb
19 Feb
5:43 p.m.
sorry about that, not intentional.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:22 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Please make sure your messages to CCTalk have a
Subject: line, otherwise
they end up being 'un-clickable' in the archive, like this:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2020-February/date.html
It's possible to hand-edit the URL's to see them, but it's a PITA!
Noel
7:44 p.m.
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
Please make sure your messages to CCTalk have a
Subject: line, otherwise
they end up being 'un-clickable' in the archive, like this:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2020-February/date.html
It's possible to hand-edit the URL's to see them, but it's a PITA!
In that case, perhaps there could be a special dispensation, that messages
that mention politics don't need a subject line?
8:40 p.m.
> In that case, perhaps there could be a special
dispensation, that messages
> that mention politics don't need a subject line?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Ethan
O'Toole wrote:
Maybe the list could at something like (cct) in front
of all subject
lines....
That was discussed long ago. The majority, AT THAT TIME, did not want it.
Can you devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject of every message that
does NOT mention politics?
9:08 p.m.
Can you devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject
of every message that
does NOT mention politics?
If you did [CCT] then it would be shorter and more actual subject meat
would fit on my terminal in my mail client.
I don't think I recall political discussion on this list.
- Ethan
11:33 p.m.
> Can you devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the
subject of every message that
> does NOT mention politics?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
If you did [CCT] then it would be shorter and more
actual subject meat would
fit on my terminal in my mail client.
That would be GOOD!
I don't think I recall political discussion on
this list.
In the Crypto AG thread, it reached a point where there was little to no
computer content (which I had found fascinating), with half of the posts
being political, and the other half refuting those with THE REAL TRUTH.
Being an election year in USA, I am concerned that a few too many people
will want to tell us THE REAL TRUTH and then be refuted by the political
posters.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
20 Feb
20 Feb
9:40 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:40:11PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I use mutt. I receive few thousands mails a month (this month, as of
today, it is close to 4800 already). In mailbox view I press 'l', then
at prompt say 'classic'<enter> and mutt is capable of showing me
everything that came from cctalk/cctech (I guess so, at least). I can
also give it something like 'cctalk|cctech|tuhs|coff' and it limits
view to cover most of my retro mailing lists.
So, speaking just for myself, I do not need [cct] in subject line at
this moment.
>In that
case, perhaps there could be a special dispensation,
>that messages that mention politics don't need a subject line?
On Wed, 19
Feb 2020, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
Maybe the list could at something like (cct) in
front of all
subject lines....
That was discussed long ago. The majority, AT THAT TIME, did not want it. Can you devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject
of every
message that does NOT mention politics?
I have read recent polit-thread with a kind of amusement. I am still
subscribed to Python programming language list and they trash my inbox
with questions like "how to sort the list in most kosher Pythonic
way". With the kind of mail traffic I get, I have learnt to not care
much about unwanted delivery.
Natural language processing is probably the answer to your question,
but there are ways to bypass simple implementations and not trivial
implementations are yet to come, I think. Jay-minator, I mean.
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
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10:06 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:40:03 +0100, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
Silly comparison. I am not particularly interested in Sun cables
either, but that is clearly on topic here.
/Tomas
Can you devise
a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject of every
message that does NOT mention politics?
I have read recent polit-thread with a kind of amusement. I am still
subscribed to Python programming language list and they trash my inbox
with questions like "how to sort the list in most kosher Pythonic
way". [...]
11:32 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Tomas By wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:40:03 +0100, Tomasz Rola via
cctalk wrote:
Silly comparison.
Maybe.
Can you
devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject of every
message that does NOT mention politics?
I have read recent polit-thread with a kind of amusement. I am still
subscribed to Python programming language list and they trash my inbox
with questions like "how to sort the list in most kosher Pythonic
way". [...] I am not particularly interested in Sun cables either,
but that is
clearly on topic here.
I find this list to be quite on topic, as compared to other lists I
use to hear from. Although the said Python list, while perfectly on
topic, has also huge noise/info problem. Not the problem with this
list, from which I am learning a lot.
Speaking of problem with offtopic posts, since I am not sure when was
last time I have read the brunt thread (before the one we speak
about), perhaps making lots of fuss will also make the problem bigger
than it really is?
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **
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