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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?
In-Reply-To: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 17, 98 04:59:04 pm"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:55:55 -0800 (PST)
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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

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