Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: ras@interaccess.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary Message-ID: <199904202147.RAA10778@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990420211818.36076@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Apr 20, 99 09:18:18 pm"
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Sue Blake wrote, > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:01:40AM -0500, Chris Silva wrote: > > I personally think, this really ought to have been kept in private. > > After all, that's what email is for... > > I agree. The correct action when you see something like this and judge > it to be inappropriate, is to do NOTHING. Replying only prolongs the > stupidity, brings you down to their standards, and gives them the > thrill of recognition that was their original goal. > > As you point out, private mail is the appropriate medium if a response > is really necessary. By the time a reply can reach the list, the unwise > poster has probably already tasted my scorn, or worse, my lectures. Good luck in feeding it to him; the post was obviously forged. Any forged post deserves no response from anyone. 99.999% of the time it was sent soley to cause trouble, to troll. The only vaild response might be to the postmaster of a site whose poorly configured mail relay has been taken advantage of. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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