From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 27 14:52:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896B814E0E for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id OAA02564; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:53:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19991027145316.15105@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:53:16 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Boothman , Mike Cc: FreeBSD-chat , "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: Cant these people spell? References: <01ac01bf1f6d$52bbd100$2501000a@franops1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Boothman on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:56:14PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 17:56:14 +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > On 26-Oct-99 Mike wrote: >> So... What makes you god ? just because they cant type doesnt not mean they >> dont need help.... rember one day you guys where a newbie too..... we all >> were I mean show some niceness geeze.. oh damm did I spell a word wrong time >> for me to get bitch at too eh... > > It's not a question of anyone playing god, simply that _everyone_ should make > the effort to properly format and errorcheck their e-mails. There's an additional issue here: there seems to be a distinct correlation between people who can't (or won't) spell or format their messages correctly, and people who have trouble installing. Should this be a surprise? > When you get 100s of email each day (and those on -questions and/or > -current will) a badly formatted or spelt message could simply get > ignored. Like it or not, that's a fact. Definitely. I usually delete them without trying to read them. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message