Where's a

[lsanderson]

SMOF cork when you need it?

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Who do you want to make shut up?

B

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

While I'm waiting for the 103 e-mail messages on my in queue to download, I'll hazard the guess that lsanderson's answer to your question would be "All of them. With Extreme Prejudice."

SMOFs

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

95 messages since 9 or so this morning...

Si

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

They kvetch almost as much as I do...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's hard to list all the unpleasantnesses I would choose over reading the SMOFs list, if that is what you're referring to.

K.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Yep. That'd be my answer. Either that or, "today...today is not a good day for me to answer that question."

Reading?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

That's what "Mark as Read" is for...

Re: SMOFs

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

There's this "digest" option...I'm about to use that one, or I won't get a damned thing done tomorrow.

Re: SMOFs

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

The "vacation" option is looking mighty tempting...

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I sort them into separate folders on the server using procmail, and read them using any IMAP client. So I don't see the big mailing lists getting between me and my personal email; which I agree would be terribly annoying.

Obviously the SMOF cork popped out, and nobody has found where it flew to yet; hence the current problem :-).

Si

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I sort 'em all out too, but they're kind of outta control today...

Re: Si

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

'course they are...it goes silent for long enough, then re-emerges with a vengeance. The only way to calm 'em down is to threaten to run Janice for some elected office or another.

Re: Si

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Almost? I take it you haven't been around that long.

Wait 'til it gets busy.

Re: Si

[sethb.livejournal.com]

That leads to serious quiet. FSVO.

Re: Si

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

"With a vengeance" would be one of the larger understatements I've seen recently.

I don't know what's worse... trying to keep up with SMOFS or the 72 bounceback emails I woke up to this morning because the Polaris programming email address (for which I'm one of the two recipients) is being used by spammers.

Fortunately, that latter situation seems to have been a one-off (touch wood), whereas the SMOFS list is not.

Most of today's discussion hasn't even been remotely interesting, IMO.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

There is much joy to be had in exercising the Delete key. Which I've done today. With extreme Prejudice.

Re: Si

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

He he he. What'll it be this time ??

Re: Si

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Seth has a point. This is mild compared to some somewhat recent .. extemporaneous outbursts.

Re: Si

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

But rarely caused by a MN lesbian's post on her own livejournal...

Re: Si

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Someone posted about the Hugo's. The Mark Protection Racket Committee Enforcement Goon Squad swept in. Happens every where, every time.

Re: Si

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Yup, still digging...

Re: Si

[elaine-brennan.livejournal.com]

That's what the delete key is for -- I took one look at the list of posters and the topic and thought, "Do I need this sort of aggravation?"

And my path forward was ever so clear...!

Re: Si

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I'm always afraid I'll miss something interesting if I just start deleting en masse, though. So far, however, I haven't... and I've wasted hours I'll never get back in proving that to myself. (Well, minutes, at any rate.)

And the "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" parody posted today was just painful. I was tempted to look up the original lyrics (which I'm only about 30% familiar with) to make sure that the parody scanned, but I couldn't be bothered. Which, when it comes to musical theatre, is quite something for me to say. However, that particular poster is one whose messages I almost always delete without reading.