Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:55:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Message-ID: <199802171855.KAA24586@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 17, 98 04:59:04 pm"
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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. i just delete those messages. i dont have the time to dig out the material, the persoan asking or commenting should be polite enough to do the minimum. ;) > > Am I just getting intolerant in my old age, or do other people see > this as a problem as well? it a real problem. perhaps we are reaching a new collection of FreeBSD users....ones that are less net-educated. as an example, one person has been claiming that the sendmail anti-spam rules dont work. the truth of the matter is that this person has a rudimentary knowlege of sendmail and sendmail rewrite rules. its a shame that he doesnt realize this, but rather declares it broken ;( > > Oh, and this way I'll see if -chat is still alive :-) oh, yes its alive and well. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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