Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:48:18 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Message-ID: <19980217094818.16871@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:59:04PM %2B1030 References: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com>
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Yes. On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:59:04PM +1030, 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 > 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 Eivind, who just had to :-) P.S. The "Yes." part is serious, though it's placement isn't. D.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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