As I was scrolling through my IDM inbox this morning, deleteing 4 out of
every 5 messages unread because they involved bitching about how much the
list sucks or selling/trading fucking Coachella bootlegs, something
occured to me:
This recent "problem" with the list's Reply-To function should be looked
at as a blessing in disguise and used by the list moderator as an idiot
filter. After all, almost every single time someone replies to the whole
list "by mistake", it's in an attempt to arrange a trade with some other
schmoe who hasn't bought an actual record in his life and trades MP3s and
CDRs like they were baseball cards. So why not just give the boot to
anyone who replies to the whole list in this fashion? It's not like they'd
contribute anything useful, anyway.
Of course, if it was up to me, I'd also give the boot to people who don't
quote properly (either quoting the whole message they're replying to, or
not quoting at all), who post in all caps, and other things like that. But
I'm just a cranky old man who remembers a time before any numbskull with a
computer and a modem (or a freaking WebTV terminal) could get onto the
Net, so don't mind me...
Greg
(only half-joking)
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