From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 16 22:29:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07183 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:29:18 -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 WAA07171 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:29:10 -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 QAA27256 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:59:05 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA07010; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:59:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:59:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i 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 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