Christopher Fikes » Rant http://chris.fikesmedia.com Technologist | Geek | Open Source Enthusiast Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Enough is enough. http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/07/03/enough-is-enough/ http://chris.fikesmedia.com/2009/07/03/enough-is-enough/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:21:53 +0000 cfikes http://chris.fikesmedia.com/?p=76 Stack of Envelopes

Over the past two days I have received over 2000 emails, all from one sender. You might ask yourself, why don’t you just block this sender? I would, but I am required to be a member of this mailing list. The mailing list is the Fedora FreeMedia Mailing List. It sends out every ticket request, and update to everyone on the list. I can see where this was useful long ago, but this has got to stop. We at the Fedora Project need to at the bare minimum have two mailing list for this program, one for discussions, and one for tickets. Make the discussions required, and the tickets not. I’m sure most everyone on that mailing list is like me and have come complacent and just flat ignore the emails that come from this address, they don’t go to my blackberry anymore, that was a disaster. Give me one of your blackberry email addresses and let me send 2000 messages to it. It becomes very, very, VERY unresponsive and useless. Also, syncing on IMAP the deletion of 2000 messages takes a really long time.

The point, we don’t all need to see every action that takes place in the trac system sent out in an email. Lets just be responsible and check the trac system daily, I and most already do.

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If you know of a netbook that meats this requirement, please email me. I need a new one. My Hp 2133 just stinks with Fedora 11 on it. Thanks VIA for the “open” drivers.

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