Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:59:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Message-ID: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com>
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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 expect poorly prepared messages from -questions, and I've written a web page to try to stop people from doing the nasty things they do, but lately I've noticed a tendency creeping in to the more technical mailing lists as well. In particular, people are starting not to interleave answer and original text, the original reason for quoting messages, but just appending them at the end of the message, so that after about three iterations you have to look in four different places to find the references. Am I just getting intolerant in my old age, or do other people see this as a problem as well? Oh, and this way I'll see if -chat is still alive :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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