Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:09:00 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making A FreeBSD CD-ROM Message-ID: <199809110004.RAA01892@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:36:12 PDT." <18799.905470572@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <18799.905470572@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } > [ redirected to -chat; this doesn't belong in -questions ] } } Then why did you leave -questions in the cc line? :-) So that anyone reading it in -questions who cared could follow it to -chat. [ ... ] } > who haven't bothered to try to help themselves. I find it much more produc } ti } ve } > to reply in private to them suggesting places they might look for prelimina } ry } > information than fuming over the whole thing for each such message that com } es } > by. Some people are repeat offenders; their mail gets sent to the bin and } } Heh. I might note that I've also found an even more productive method } since I get too many of these to even manage a short reply now: Just } whap `delete'. Most folks who personally query me only to get no } response at all do, amazingly enough, either figure it out for } themselves shortly thereafter or figure out where to get that } kind of information without hassling somebody directly in email. :-) Yes, that was another of my proposed solutions, and is my most common response to such messages as well :) A point which I didn't stress particularly hard in my first response is that this is in some ways analogous to unsolicited email - often times the amount of pain caused by people quoting the entire offending message and adding a "clever" retort is orders of magnitude greater than that of the original unwanted message. Those people are as much (if not more) a part of the problem than are the people they're complaining about. I could go on, but it might cause someone's irony-o-meter to explode, so I'll shut up for a while instead. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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