From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 3 19:01:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02333 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02316; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10412; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:30:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA21330; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:30:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980304133044.02088@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:30:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty , Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: Mark Murray , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? References: <199803021549.MAA05913@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> <199803030920.BAA06680@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803030920.BAA06680@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 01:20:23AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 March 1998 at 1:20:23 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> #define quoting(Mark Murray) >> // Greg Lehey wrote: >> // > It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of >> // > hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased. I've come to >> // >> // I have noticed a large increase in this as well; >> // >> // o Not quoting the original message, just supplying an out-of context >> // answer. >> >> Put Amancio Hasty in this list ! :) >> >> (I had to say that, I had to say that !!!!!!!! :) ) >> >> Sometimes I have problems to understand the context in his messages. > > (Moved to after the text to which it refers) > > Don't worry many of my messages are not meant to be understood rather > evoke a feeling , reaction and who knows to trigger a thought . Aha. Care to comment on what kind of feeling? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message